NLG - Day Against the Death Penalty

  • When: March 30, 2009, 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm
  • Where: Knight Hall 115

NLG presents:
Student Day Against the Death Penalty
with Hilary Carpenter,
President of the Board of Directors
of the
Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
March 30th
12:30-1:30 (lunch will be served)
Location: Knight 115


On March 18, 2009 New Mexico became the third state in two years to abolish the death penalty, joining New York and New Jersey. 

Nationwide statistics point to a disparate impact of capital punishment sentencing on indigent and minority defendants. In 96% of states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination.

Since 1973, over 120 people have been released from death row due to evidence of their innocence.

Please RSVP to Allison.Silva@students.law.uconn.edu . "RSVP-ing" is appreciated but not required.

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