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National Death Penalty Archive

Researchers, writers, activists, and records on capital punishment in the United States.

The National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA) is a partnership between the University at Albany Libraries and the Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) at the University's School of Criminal Justice. In 1999, researchers at the School of Criminal Justice formally established the CPRI. Its overarching goals were research and education -- initiate capital punishment research activities, facilitate collaboration among researchers, and make findings and information available to legal and criminal justice policymakers, practitioners, and the public. One of the original goals of the CPRI was to establish and maintain a collection of archival materials documenting the important history of capital punishment, and to provide resources for historical scholarship. This growing collection of archival materials is housed in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, which is located in the University's state of the art Science Library. Open since 1999, the new archival repository includes climate-controlled storage for more than 25,000 cubic feet. The following collections have been acquired for the NDPA through the collaborative efforts of the CPRI and the University Libraries; work is continuing to build this important link to the history of capital punishment in the United States.

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Death Penalty, 1986

Box 8 (2-publications), Folder 6

References, 1990

Box 8 (2-publications), Folder 7

Court Testimony, 1960-1991

This series contains photocopies of court transcripts and bills on cases before local, state, federal, and international courts. Ernest van den Haag was called upon to testify as an expert witness before the U.S. House and Senate subcommittees and the U.S. Supreme Court between 1960 and 1973 in cases that involved desegregation. His testimony was also used at the International Court of Justice at The Hague concerning South West African relations with Ethiopia and Liberia in 1966. Ernest van den Haag's testimony in two pornography cases reveals the struggle between towns and theaters showing adult films in the early 1980s. Other topics van den Haag testified on include medicine, psychology, labor, and homosexuality. Some of the material gathered in this series also includes proposed outlines for testimony, questions to be asked, preliminary notes, and van den Haag's curriculum vitae. Expert testimony usually begins with van den Haag presenting himself by answering questions about his knowledge and background that established him as an expert on the subject.