ALBANY, N.Y. (October 16, 2007)
What:
Norma Herrera, author of Last Words from Death Row: The Walls Unit (Nightengale Press), will discuss capital punishment and issues of criminal justice, including the execution of her brother Leonel following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1993 decision in Herrera v. Collins.
Norma Herrera will also donate materials related to her brother's case to the UAlbany National Death Penalty Archive.
Who:
Sponsored by the Capital Punishment Research Initiative and New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty
When:
Wednesday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Where:
Standish Room, Science Library, University at Albany uptown campus, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany
Background:
The National Death Penalty Archive is the first archive in the nation that is exclusively dedicated to the history of the death penalty in the U.S. The archives are housed in the University at Albany's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives. The concept for the repository originated with the School of Criminal Justice's Capital Punishment Research Initiative.
