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DEATH PENALTY CONFERENCE.


Byline: The Register-Guard

A registration fee is required to attend the entire event, but the following keynote addresses are all free and open to the public. All will be held in the EMU ballroom on the UO campus.

Politics, Justice and the Death Penalty: 10 a.m. Friday. Speakers include Dave Frohnmayer, Mark Hatfield Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922) is a former United States Senator and Governor of Oregon. He is a member of the Republican Party. Biography
Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon,[1]
 and Robert Blecker.

Until I Can Be Sure: How Gov. Ryan Decided to Suspend Capital Executions in Illinois: 5:15 p.m. Friday. Speakers include Gov. George Ryan For the former member of the Canadian House of Commons, see George Ryan (Canadian politician).

George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934 in Maquoketa, Iowa) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003.
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The Injustice of Death: 7:30 p.m. Friday. Speakers Bryan Stevenson, Charles Ogletree and Robert Blecker.

The Whole World Is Watching: 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Speakers include Charles Ogletree, Sister Helen Prejean Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (b. April 21, 1939, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Roman Catholic nun, one of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.  and Stephen Bright The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. .

On the Web: For a complete conference schedule, list of speakers and registration information, visit www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/deathpen.shtml or call the Morse Center at 346-3700.

- The Wayne Morse Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. In 1953, he made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest one-person filibuster in  Center for Law and Politics
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