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On Nov. 6, Californians will vote on Prop 34, which abolishes the death penalty. Currently 726 people are on death row in California prisons.
LAWRENCE MARSHALL, widely recognized for his lawyering, activism and teaching, is Associate Dean for Clinical Education and David & Stephanie Mills Director of the Mills Legal Clinic. Much of his scholarly work has focused on the death penalty. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2005 he was a professor of law at Northwestern University where he co-founded and directed the world-renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions. He represented many wrongly convicted inmates, including many who had been sentenced to death. His work played a role in the declaration of a moratorium on Illinois executions in 2000 and abolition of the Illinois death penalty in 2011.
SCOTTY McLENNAN earned degrees in Divinity and Law at Harvard, was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister and admitted to the bar the same year, and practiced poverty law for ten years in Boston. He developed the Unitarian Universalist Legal Ministry, which used largely non-adversary means and sought reconciliation between parties. He served as Chaplain of Tufts University before coming to Stanford in 2001. His books include Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning (1999) and Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All (2009).
After broadly introducing the topic, the speakers will focus on the Jewish and Catholic traditions.
Part of a Series: “Religious Perspectives On Violence, Nonviolence, War & Peace.”
Full series: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/relstud/events.html under “Fall 2012 Lecture Series, Wednesdays. . .”
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC