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Full Committee Hearing

Death Penalty 

Type: Full Committee Hearing
Date:
Time: 11:02am
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226

Panel 1

  • S.G. Dennis Edward Jr.

    Assistant Attorney General
    Criminal Division
    U.S. Department of Justice

Panel 2

  • James C. Anders

    Solicitor
    Fifth Judicial Circuit
    State of South Carolina
    Columbia, SC
  • Wanda Summers

    Pawley's Island, SC
  • Robert B. Kliesmet

    President
    International Union of Police Associations
  • C. Roland Vaughn III

    Vice President
    International Association of Chiefs of Police

Panel 3

  • Michael McCann

    District Attorney
    Milwaukee, WI
  • Ronald E. Hampton

    Executive Director
    National Black Police Association
  • Michael Radelet

    Professor of Sociology
    University of Florida
  • Jonathan E. Gradess

    Executive Director
    New York State Defenders Association

Panel 4

  • Edward Lone Fight

    Chairman
    Three Affiliated Tribes
    Fort Berthold Reservation, ND
  • Stephen O. Kinnard

    Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
    Atlanta, GA
  • Michael Mello

    Assistant Professor
    Vermont Law School
  • Nancy A. McKerrow

    Assistant Public Defender
    Columbia, MO
  • James W, Ellis

    President, American Association on Mental Retardation
    Visiting Professor of Law
    American University

Panel 5

  • Paul Kamenar

    Executive Legal Director
    Washington Legal Foundation
    Washington, D.C.
  • Paul G. Cassell

    Assistant U.S. Attorney
    Eastern District of Virginia
  • Sterling Epps

    Legislative Cochairman
    Federal Law Enforcement Officers' Association
    Burke, VA

Panel 6

  • Tova Indritz

    Federal Public Defender
    District of New Mexico
  • Tom Tso

    Chief Justice
    Navajo Nation
  • Faith Roessel

    Staff Attorney
    Native American Rights Fund

Panel 7

  • Joseph E. Lowrey

    President
    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • Julius L. Chambers

    Director Counsel
    NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • David C. Baldus

    Professor
    University of Iowa College of Law
  • Ronald J. Tabak

    American Bar Association

Panel 8

  • Edward S.G. Dennis Jr.

    Acting Deputy Attorney General
    U.S. Department of Justice

Panel 9

  • William B. Hill

    Deputy Attorney General
    State of Georgia
  • Joseph L. Katz

    Associate Professor
    Decision Sciences
    Georgia State University
  • Paul D. Kamenar

    Executive Legal Director
    Washington Legal Foundation
    Washington, D.C.