The Future of the Death Penalty: Can Science Ever Make it Foolproof?
On Thursday, February 14, 2008, the Boston Lawyer Chapter, the Suffolk University Law School Student Chapter and the Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Section of the Boston Bar Association hosted a discussion entitled “The Future of the Death Penalty: Can Science Ever Make it Foolproof?” Intorduced by Boston Lawyer Chapter leader Rob Whitney (far left) the event featured (continuing from left to right) Rep. Marty Walz, Massachusetts State House of Representatives, moderator; Deborah Fleischaker, Director of the American Bar Association, Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project; Daniel J. Givelber, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Member of the Board, New England Innocence Project; and Dr. Carll Ladd, Connecticut Department of Public Safety, Forensic Science Laboratory.
