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The American Law Institute on Capital Punishment

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The latest ALI e-rporter has this:Capital Punishment Status Report Now Available A written status report on whether the Institute should address the issue of capital punishment will be mailed to all members with the ALI Annual Reports by the end of April. During the Annual Meeting?s opening session on Monday, May 19, Director Lance Liebman and President Michael Traynor will update the membership on the issue. The capital-punishment materials are available online now.The 47-page report is here.  Two brief excerpts from the status report are below:Prior to the 2007 Annual Meeting's consideration of the Model Penal CodeSentencing Project, Professors Roger S. Clark of Rutgers School of Law,Camden, and Ellen S. Podgor of Stetson University College of Law submitted amotion (Annex 1) to have the Institute declare its opposition to capitalpunishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).