Media, Race and the Death Penalty (Law Symposium 2008) - Video (Large)

This Symposium, organized by the DePaul Law Review and the DePaul College of Law Center for Justice in Capital Cases, explored the interplay of media, race, and the death penalty.  An extraordinary slate of speakers and panelists with varied expertise discussed the issues, including  Michael Brown, Raymond Brown, Joe Domanick, Renee Ferguson (NBC 5 Chicago), Craig Haney, Justin Levinson, Andrea Lyon, Rachel Lyon, Paul Meincke (ABC 7 News), the Honorable Nan Nolan, Carol Steiker, Jordan Steiker, William Moffitt, and Bryan Stevenson.  Clarence Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a member of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board, gave the Keynote Address.
 
The Symposium also featured an advance screening of Juror Number Six, the Race to Execution Outreach Project's new media module and a continuation of the strategic campaign begun with the documentary Race to Execution.  Directed and produced by Rachel Lyon, Juror Number Six addresses the impact of "racialized" coverage of race and crime in different forms of media—TV news, dramatic programs, and Internet content—and explores the impact on people as they step into the jury box in criminal trials, including death penalty proceedings.
 
More information about the DePaul Law Review is available at http://law.depaul.edu/lawreview, and information about the Center for Justice in Capital Cases is available at http://law.depaul.edu/cjcc/.