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Capital Punishment

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Partner:: New Yorker
Location:: Directors Guild Theatre
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.01.11
Speakers:: Marc Klaas,; Joshua Marquis,; Danalynn Recer,; Barry Scheck,; Jeffrey Toobin
Tags:: death penalty; death row

Summary: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Is the death penalty dying?

With Marc Klaas, Joshua Marquis, Danalynn Recer, and Barry Scheck. Moderated by Jeffrey Toobin.

Marc Klaas is the head of the KlaasKids Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing crimes against children. It was founded in 1994, after the kidnapping and murder of his twelve year-old daughter, Polly. In 2001, he co-founded BeyondMissing, which helps law enforcement distribute missing-child flyers.

Joshua Marquis has been the district attorney in Astoria, Oregon, since 1994. A member of the board of directors of the National District Attorneys Association for the past fourteen years, he was the chair of its Capital Litigation Committee. His essay “Truth and Consequences” is included in the collection Debating the Death Penalty.

Danalynn Recer is the founder and executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, a Houston-based organization that represents defendants in death-penalty cases. Previously, she worked as an attorney with the Texas Resource Center and with the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. She has represented more than a hundred capital clients over the past two decades.

Barry Scheck is a founding director of the Innocence Project, whose mission is to use DNA testing to exonerate people who have been wrongly convicted of crimes. To date, more than two hundred and seventy people have been exonerated, including seventeen on death row. He is the co-author of Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right.

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a senior analyst for CNN. The Mitigator, his piece about capital punishment and Danalynn Recer, appeared in the May 9th issue.

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Marc Klaas

Marc Klaas is the head of the KlaasKids Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing crimes against children. It was founded in 1994, after the kidnapping and murder of his twelve year-old daughter, Polly. In 2001, he co-founded BeyondMissing, which helps law enforcement distribute missing-child flyers.

Joshua Marquis

Joshua Marquis has been the district attorney in Astoria, Oregon, since 1994. A member of the board of directors of the National District Attorneys Association for the past fourteen years, he was the chair of its Capital Litigation Committee. His essay "Truth and Consequences" is included in the collection Debating the Death Penalty.

Danalynn Recer

Danalynn Recer is the founder and executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, a Houston-based organization that represents defendants in death-penalty cases. Previously, she worked as an attorney with the Texas Resource Center and with the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. She has represented more than a hundred capital clients over the past two decades.

Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck is a founding director of the Innocence Project, whose mission is to use DNA testing to exonerate people who have been wrongly convicted of crimes. To date, more than two hundred and seventy people have been exonerated, including seventeen on death row. He is the co-author of Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right.

Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a senior analyst for CNN. “The Mitigator,” his piece about capital punishment and Danalynn Recer, appeared in the May 9th issue.

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01.: New Myths in Opposition to Death Penalty

05 min 09 sec

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02.: Unacceptable Risk of Executing Innocent People

06 min 15 sec

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03.: Mitigation in Penalty Phase

03 min 42 sec

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04.: Victim Perspective of Death Penalty

10 min 09 sec

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05.: Why Executions and Death Sentences Are Down

07 min 21 sec

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06.: Capital Punishment Is No Longer a Third Rail

06 min 04 sec

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07.: Slow Pace of Death Penalty Cases

03 min 59 sec

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08.: Racial Factors

08 min 42 sec

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09.: Subjectivity in Executions

03 min 19 sec

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10.: Proper Application of Death Penalty

06 min 17 sec

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11.: To Design a System That Works

04 min 36 sec

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12.: Q1: Would Bin Laden Deserve Death Penalty?

06 min 55 sec

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13.: Q2: Top Penalty in States Without Execution

02 min 01 sec

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14.: Q3: Accepting the Possibility of an Innocent Execution

01 min 02 sec

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15.: Q4: Political Reasons to Pursue Death Penalty

03 min 06 sec

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16.: Q5: Impact on Corrections Staff

03 min 01 sec

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17.: Q6: Victim's Family Should Decide

04 min 48 sec

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18.: Q7: Disregard for Legal Procedure

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Is Capital Punishment Color Blind?

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Danalynn Recer, founder and executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, discusses accusations that race affects sentencing in death penalty cases. She suggests that while prosecutors may not intentionally take race into account, death penalty cases are both symbolic and subjective, and issues of race inevitably factor in.
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