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OSI Forum: Supreme Decisions—Re-Thinking the Death Penalty
Location: OSI-New York
Event Date(s): July 18, 2002
Speaker(s): Stephen B. Bright, Steven W. Hawkins, Jane Henderson , Gara LaMarche, Kristen Wolf

In recent months, a series of judicial decisions and legislative movements limiting the scope of capital punishment have focused renewed attention on the death penalty in the United States. In a forum held July 18, 2002 at OSI offices in New York City, leading activists discussed the realities of these recent developments, their impact on the death penalty debate in general, and their implications for other social justice movements.

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Supreme Decisions—Re-Thinking the Death Penalty
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