Death penalty in New York testimony collection,
- Author:
- State University of New York at Albany. School of Criminal Justice. Capital Punishment Research Initiative.
- Call Number:
- MSS APAP-206 local
- Abstract:
- The Death Penalty in New York Testimony collection includes testimony given to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Codes, Assembly Standing Committee on Judiciary, and Assembly Standing Committee on Correction, on December 14, 2004, January 21 and 25, 2005, and February 8 and 11, 2005. The collection includes testimony from 137 witnesses, including officials from grass roots organizations, lawyers, law professors, concerned citizens, religious leaders, former inmates, and families of victims. Some witnesses included: Dr. Alice Green, Albany human rights activist; Hon. Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York County; Bill Babbitt, brother of executed death row inmate Manny Babbitt; David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty and brother of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; and Bishop Dominick Lagonegro of the Archdiocese of New York. The collection also includes the Public Hearing reports for each day of hearings recorded verbatim; a copy of the 1965 Committee for the Revision of the Penal and Criminal Legal Code Special Report on Capital Punishment; and an amicus brief for People v. McCoy and People v. Cahill filed by Stewart F. Hancock.
- Historical Note:
- The Death Penalty in New York Testimony collection was collected as part of a partnership between the Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) at the University at Albany's School of Criminal Justice and the University at Albany Libraries. The New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Codes, Judiciary and Correction held a succession of public hearings in December 2004- February 2005 on the death penalty in New York in reaction to the June 24, 2004, decision, in People v. LaValle, by the New York Court of Appeals striking down New York's 1995 capital punishment law, thus forbidding the operation of the death penalty. The decision by the New York Court of Appeals left the New York State Assembly the charge to enact legislation that would reinstate the death penalty, modify the death penalty, or abolish the death penalty. The committees heard oral testimony from 146 witnesses and read written testimony from another 24 witnesses.
- Physical Description:
- 1.6 cu. ft
- Access Terms:
- Access to the collection is unrestricted.
- Notes:
- Part of the Archives of Public Affairs and Policy. local
- Subjects:
- Capital punishment New York (State) and Capital punishment
- Names:
- Babbitt, William, 1942-, Lagonegro, Dominick John, 1943-, Green, Alice P., 1946-, Hancock, Stewart F, Kaczynski, David, 1949-, Meeropol, Robert, Morgenthau, Robert M, Green, Alice P., 1946-, and Morgenthau, Robert M
- Corporate Names:
- State University of New York at Albany. School of Criminal Justice. Capital Punishment Research Initiative, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on Codes, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Correction, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on the Judiciary, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Correction, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on Codes, and New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on the Judiciary
- Geographic Terms:
- New York (State)
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