Angel of Death Row
2/2/2010
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Tuesday, February 2
From 6:00 PM until 8 PM
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Room 201
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20008
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Joe Libertelli
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The UDC David A. Clarke School of Law and
Jamie Raskin, Professor of Constitutional Law, American University
Present
Andrea D. Lyon (Antioch School of Law, 1976)
Author of "Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer"
 
Andrea Lyon is Professor of Law, DePaul University, and nationally recognized death penalty expert.
Copies of Angel of Death Row: My Life As a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
will be available for purchase, and Ms. Lyon will sign books. A wine
reception will precede Ms. Lyon’s talk.
This trail-blazing attorney pioneered unconventional ways to defend
clients against society’s ultimate punishment. Nineteen times, Ms. Lyon
has argued to save a convicted murderer’s life, and 19 times she has
succeeded.
Come to hear her answer to the perennial question, "How can you defend these people?”
Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer is the
harrowing memoir of the first woman in the United States to head a
death penalty defense team.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
6:00 p.m.
the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
4200 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Building 39, Room 201
Washington, DC 20008
At the Van Ness—UDC station on the Red Line.
This event is free and open to the public.
Published January 5 by Kaplan Publishing.
"Riveting stories” - Kirkus Reviews
"Reads like a thriller with real life-or-death consequences” - Bookselling This Week
"…timely, important, and a page-turner to the end.” - Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
"…must reading for anyone who wants to see how the capital punishment
system really dysfunctions…” - Ronald J. Tabak, Chair, Death Penalty
Committee of the American Bar Association
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