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A Human Rights Perspective on Recent Challenges to Legal Injection

Please join Dorsey & Whitney LLP and
The Advocates for Human Rights’ Death Penalty Project
for our bi-monthly lunchtime speaker series:

A Human Rights Perspective on Recent Challenges to Lethal Injection

presented by

Laura Young

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
12:00-1:00 P.M.

Dorsey & Whitney
Seattle Room, 15th Floor
50 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

What does the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence relating to lethal injection mean for the future of capital punishment? This presentation will discuss section 1983 challenges to three-drug lethal injection procedures as a means of capital punishment. Ms. Young will speak about the case of Hill v. McDonough, the recent stay of execution granted by the governor of South Dakota, and other cases. Application will be made for one CLE credit. This presentation is a brown bag lunch. Beverages will be provided.

Speaker biography

Laura Young is the 2006-07 Wellstone Fellow at The Advocates for Human Rights. Ms. Young received her J.D. magna cum laude in 2005 from the University of Minnesota Law School and received her Master of Public Health from Emory University in 1999. Ms. Young has worked on criminal law and human rights issues throughout her professional career, specifically violence against women and the death penalty. Ms. Young was a domestic violence educator and trainer at the Women’s Center of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, worked with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Youth Policy Development on a project to measure race bias in the applications of New Jersey’s death penalty, and most recently was employed by the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Project, which provides legal representation to Mexican nationals facing capital punishment in the U.S.

Please R.S.V.P. to Rosalyn Park at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
by Monday September 18, 2006.
Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 106 • Email: rpark@mnadvocates.org