National Death Penalty Expert to Speak at CADP
Dinner
Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director of the
Death Penalty Information Center in Washington,
D.C., will be the keynote speaker at the CADP
Annual Dinner on Thursday, March 18.
The Death Penalty Information Center is a nonprofit
organization serving the media and the public
with analysis and information on issues concerning
capital punishment. The Center prepares in-depth
reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings
for journalists, and serves as a resource to
those working on this issue. Since its founding
in 1990, the Center's reports on issues related
to the death penalty have received wide attention.
Mr. Dieter has been the Executive Director of
the Death Penalty Information Center since 1992.
He received his law degree from Georgetown, where
he was one of the University's first Public Interest
Law Scholars and served as an editor of the Georgetown
Journal of Legal Ethics. He is a member of the
Maryland Bar, the Bar of the District of Columbia,
and the Bar of the U. S. Supreme Court, and serves
as an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University
School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on
the death penalty.
Mr. Dieter has worked for many years on issues
related to human rights and the death penalty.
He has given numerous speeches at universities
and is frequently quoted in the major newspapers
around the country. He has appeared on NBC Nightly
News, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, The Today
Show, CNN Headline News, C-Span, Court-TV, and
many other programs. He has testified about the
death penalty before numerous state legislatures
and has prepared reports for the U. S. House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional
Rights. He has authored articles on the death
penalty for magazines and scholarly journals.
His most recent publications are Innocence and
the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing
the Innocent; The Death Penalty in Black and
White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides; and
International Perspectives on the Death Penalty:
A Costly Isolation for the U.S. For more information
on the Death Penalty Information Center, go to www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.
The March 18th dinner will also feature presentation
of the Abolitionist of the Year award. This year's
award is going to Michael L. Radelet, Professor
of Sociology at the University of Colorado. Mike
Radelet is an internationally-recognized death
penalty scholar, expert witness, and long-time
anti- death penalty activist. He has befriended
both death row inmates and families of homicide
victims.
Register for the CADP Annual Dinner online at http://www.coadp.org/dinner/ or
use the mail-in form in the mailed newsletter.
