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It was another outstanding symposium at The University of Texas School of Law, presented today by UT Law's Capital Punishment Center and co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.  Imprisoned by the Past: The Enduring Role of Race in the American Death Penalty, featured excellent panel discussions and a keynote delivered by Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama.  The Charles Francis auditorium was packed with law profs, law students, and guests as Stevenson related his background and talked about the long shadow that race casts in our society, "the tortured relationship with our past," as Stevenson said.He urged every law student to read the Supreme Court's 1987, 5-4 ruling in McCleskey v...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).