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A killer conference at Fordham

By Douglas A. Berman

Staring this morning is this conference in New York on lethal injection sponsored by the Fordham Urban Law Journal.  I have the honor to be monitoring a panel on saturday morning, and here is a preview of topics to be covered:The symposium will address a broad range of issues concerning lethal injection. Some of these issues include: The purpose of punishment and whether lethal injection adequately serves that purpose; the role of doctors in executions; the relationship between state laws governing the euthanasia of animals and the current lethal injection protocols in those states; the role of the Eighth Amendment in addressing these issues; the impact of the recent lethal injection litigation on lawyers, judges, media and the public, and the impact of the litigation on the death penalty debate as a whole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).