2010 NC Campus Tour:
Race, Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty
Panel Discussions Exploring the Role of Race and the Death Penalty, and North Carolina's Passage of the Racial Justice Act
With the passage of the NC Racial Justice Act last year, North Carolina became only the second state in the country to enact legislation addressing racial bias in capital sentencing.
To celebrate and discuss the implications of the enactment of the Racial Justice Act, four North Carolina campuses will be hosting panel discussions:
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◊ March 31, 2010
Wake Forest School of Law
Winston Salem, NC
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◊ April 7, 2010
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
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◊ April 8, 2010
Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, NC
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◊ April 16, 2010
NC A&T State University
Greensboro, NC
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Large Courtroom Room 1312, WFU School of Law
12:00-2pm
Event is open to the public; lunch will be provided.
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Panelists:
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Stephen Bright
President and Senior Counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights and teaches in the law schools at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown Universities. Bright is a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty.
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Darryl Hunt
Wrongfully convicted in Forsyth County, NC, Hunt served 18 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. Since his exoneration in 2004, Darryl started the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice and has been working to prevent wrongful convictions and to assist individuals recently exonerated in the state.
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Mark Rabil
Assistant Capital Defender, former attorney for Darryl Hunt, Co-Director of Innocence and Justice Clinic, supervising attorney for the Clinical Program, and adjunct professor of trial advocacy at WFU School of Law.
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Forsyth County, NC Representatives Larry Womble and Earline Parmon
Primary sponsors for the Racial Justice Act in 2007 and 2009. Representatives Womble and Parmon were tireless advocates for RJA who frequently spoke in support of RJA before the Legislative Black Caucus, the NC House, the NC Senate and the media.
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April 7, 2010 6-8 PM
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
UNC Campus
UNC Department of Political Science
UNC Department of African and Afro-American Studies
UNC Political Action Committee of the Black Student Movement
UNC Criminal Justice Action and Awareness Committee of the Campus Y
UNC Law Death Penalty Project
UNC Innocence Project
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Dr. Frank Baumgartner
Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC and co-author of “The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence.”
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Dr. Isaac Unah
Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC and co-author of 2001 Study on Race and the death penalty
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Edward Chapman
2007 Exonoree from NC death row
Edward Chapman spent 15 years on death row in North Carolina, condemned to die for crimes he did not commit.
Edward was a tireless advocate for the NC Racial Justice Act.
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Jennifer Thompson Cannino
Co-Author of “Picking Cotton”
"Picking Cotton," is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a woman and the innocent man she sent to prison. The book was written by the reconciled pair, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with help from Erin Torneo.
Picking Cotton” is the 2010 Summer Reading for incoming UNC Students
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April 8, 2010 2-4pm
Seabrook Auditorium
FSU Campus
Co-Sponosored by
Fayetteville State University Criminal Justice Department
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Wrongfully convicted in Forsyth County, NC; he served 18 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. After his exoneration in 2004, Darryl started the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice and has been working to prevent wrongful convictions and to assist individuals recently exonerated in the state.
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Co-sponsor and strong advocate for the passage of the Racial Justice Act in the NC House; Rep. Glazier is also adjunct faculty for FSU’s Criminal Justice Department and at Campbell University School of Law
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Mary Ann Tally
Partner in the law firm of Tally & Tally in Fayetteville. In addition to formerly serving as Director of the Trial Assistance Unit at NC’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Ms. Tally was also the Cumberland County Public Defender and continues to serve on the NC Indigent Services Commission in a pro-bono capacity. Ms. Tally is currently running for Superior Court Judge in Cumberland County Superior Court District 12C.
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April 16, 2010 4-6 pm
Room 123, Gibbs Hall
NC A&T State University Campus
NC A&T State University
Political Science and Criminal Justice Department
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NC Representative Alma Adams
Co-sponsor and powerful advocate for the passage of the Racial Justice Act in Legislative Black Caucus and the NC House.
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Guilford County Attorney Bob McClellan
Worked along with David Clark, Public Defender for Guilford County, on State v. Summers. This case was one of the first to use the Racial Justice Act in the defense of a criminal defendant.
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Dr. Deborah Barnes
Interim Associate Dean on University Studies at NC A&T. Dr. Barnes has done extensive research and writing on lynching. Her current scholarly projects include “Beware the Furrow of His Brow: The Cultural Logic of Black Lynch Mobs,” “Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Lynching and the African American Sermonic Tradition” and “Carnivals of Blood: Lynching as Narrative, Culture, and History.”
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Edward Chapman
Wrongfully convicted in Catawba County, NC, Chapman was exonerated from North Carolina’s death row in 2007 after serving 15 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.
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