DEATH PENALTY
Catholic bishops leading new push for change

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Carol Steiker is a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert on the death penalty. Contact 617-496-5457, steiker@law.harvard.edu.
• Hugo Adam Bedau is a professor emeritus at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He edited the book The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies (Oxford University Press, 1998). Contact 617-627-3230, habedau@aol.com.

IN THE EAST
• Joseph Bottum, editor of the conservative-leaning interfaith journal First Things, argued against the use of capital punishment in an essay titled "Christians and the Death Penalty," in the August/September 2005 edition. First Things is based in New York City. Contact 212-627-1985, ft@firstthings.com.
• Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School and an expert on capital punishment. He prefers abolition but allows for the death penalty in the "worst of the worst." Read a Dec. 3, 2000, Washington Post column he wrote, posted by Deathpenaltyinfo.org. Contact 212-431-2873, rblecker@nyls.edu.
• James S. Liebman is a Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York. Liebman co-wrote the landmark study "A Broken System, Error Rates in Capital Cases 1973-1995." The report found that 68 percent of all death verdicts imposed and fully reviewed during the study period were reversed by the courts due to serious error. The study was released in 2000. Contact 212-854-3423, jliebman@law.columbia.edu.
• Stephen P. Garvey is a professor at Cornell Law School in New York. He has written numerous articles on the death penalty and represented death row inmates. Contact 607-255-8589, garvey@law.mail.cornell.edu.
• Alexander Williams Jr. serves as a judge on the U.S. District Court for Maryland. He has a degree in ethics from Howard University's School of Divinity and contributed the chapter "Christian Ethics and Capital Punishment: A Reflection" to the book Ethical Issues: Western Philosophical and Religious Perspectives (Wadsworth, 2006). Contact 301-344-0660.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Stephen Dear is executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, a nonprofit, interfaith organization based in North Carolina whose mission is to educate and mobilize faith communities, particularly in the South, to act to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Contact 919-933-7567.
• John K. Cochran is a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. A death penalty expert, he wrote the article "Religion, Punitive Justice and Support for the Death Penalty" for Justice Quarterly. Contact 813-974-9569, cochran@chuma1.cas.usf.edu.
• Davison M. Douglas is a professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He wrote "God and the Executioner: The Influence of Western Religion on the Death Penalty" for the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Contact 757-221-3853, dmdoug@wm.edu.
• Joanna M. Shepherd is a professor of law and economics at Clemson University in South Carolina. She co-wrote the article "Capital Punishment and Deterrence" for the American Law and Economics Review. Contact 864-656-6786, jshephe@clemson.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, / is a Roman Catholic nun and author of Dead Man Walking (Vintage Books, 1994), an account of her ministry with death row inmates in Louisiana's Angola State Prison that was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1996. Her most recent book is The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (Random House, 2004). Prejean is one of the most popular and outspoken opponents of the death penalty. Contact 225-775-8814, hprejean@earthlink.net. (NOTE: Due to Hurricane Katrina, she had to relocate from New Orleans to Baton Rouge as of November 2005.)
• E. Christian Brugger is an assistant professor of ethics at Loyola University New Orleans. He wrote the book Capital Punishment: Roman Catholic Moral Tradition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). Contact 504-865-3063, ecbrugge@loyno.edu.
• Victor Anderson is associate professor of Christian ethics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. His work focuses on African Americans as well as social and political thought, and he has spoken on death penalty issues. Contact 615-322-7311, victor.anderson@vanderbilt.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• David B. Fletcher is associate professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois and teaches courses on politics, morality and ethics. Contact 630-752-5890, David.B.Fletcher@wheaton.edu.
• Joseph L. Hoffmann is the Harry Pratter Professor of Law at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is an expert on the death penalty. Contact 812-855-6150, hoffma@indiana.edu.
• Lawrence C. Marshall is director of the Northwestern University Center on Wrongful Convictions. Contact 312-503-2391, lmarshall@law.northwestern.edu.
• Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has given presentations on the death penalty and is under contract to write a book titled The Fixed Star: Religion and Equality in American Public Life. Contact her at martha_nussbaum@law.uchicago.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Defense lawyer Gregory J. Kuykendall specializes in capital cases and wrote about the politics of death sentencing in Arizona. Contact 520-792-8033, Greg.Kuykendall@azbar.org.
• Timothy J. Floyd is the J. Hadley Edgar Professor of Law at Texas Tech University's School of Law in Lubbock. He is an expert on the death penalty and served as defense counsel in the first case in the nation under the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. His primary research interest is legal ethics, especially how moral theology applies to the practice of law. He wrote "What's Going On? Christian Ethics and the Modern American Death Penalty" for the Texas Tech Law Review. Contact 806-742-3787 ext. 224, timothy.floyd@ttu.edu.
• Rob Owen is director of University of Texas at Austin's Capital Punishment Clinic. The clinic gives students the opportunity to help represent indigent criminal defendants in capital cases. Contact 512-232-9391, robowen@earthlink.net.
• John D. Carlson is a professor of religious studies at Arizona State University and editor of the 2004 collection from a Pew Forum, Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning. Contact 480-727-0694, john.carlson@asu.edu.
• J. Budziszewski is a professor of political theory at the University of Texas at Austin and specializes in the relationship between ethics, political theory and Christian theology. Contact 512-232-7229, jbud@austin.rr.com.
• Rob Owen is director of University of Texas at Austin's Capital Punishment Clinic, which gives students the opportunity to assist in representing indigent criminal defendants in capital cases, including cases that have come before the Supreme Court. Contact 512-232-9391, robowen@earthlink.net.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Mark A. Costanzo is a professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. He wrote Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty (St. Martin's Press, 1997). Contact 909-607-2339, mark.costanzo@claremont.mckenna.edu.
• Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written books on capital punishment and juvenile violence. Contact 510-642-0854, zimring@law.berkeley.edu.
• Glen H. Stassen is a professor of Christian ethics for the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He wrote the article "Biblical Teaching on Capital Punishment" for the Baptist journal Review & Expositor. Contact 626-304-3733, gstassen@fuller.edu.
• Dr. Lawrence M. Hinman is director of the Values Institute at the University of San Diego and professor of philosophy. He is author of Contemporary Moral Issues (Prentice-Hall, 2005). His presentations on ethics and the death penalty are posted on his web page along with other death penalty resources. Contact 619-260-4787, hinman@sandiego.edu.