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Robert Dunham is Assistant Federal Defender, Capital Habeas Corpus Unit and Pennsylvania Capital Representation Project; Adjunct professor of law, Villanova University, Philadelphia.
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Capital Punishment – Law, Morality & Public Policy
Wednesday-Sunday November 1-5, 2006
Oklahoma State University Campus, Stillwater
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What are the viewpoints - legal, moral, policy - about capital punishment? What is the current state of American federal and state law? What is the impact of international law? What about innocent defendants? How does death penalty litigation actually work? And finally, is it worth it? These are some of the issues we will address in this seminar
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
- Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted , Barry Scheck
- Report of the former Governor Ryan’s Commission on Capital Punishment, Illinois, 2002.
- Reading packet
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