FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: March 3, 2003
The program is the third session in UIS’ Politics and Policy Series
2002-2003 and is free and open to the public. The forum will be broadcast live
on WUIS (91.9 FM) and taped for later broadcast on Illinois Public Radio and
Illinois Public Television. A reception will immediately follow the forum.
Three panelists will give brief presentations, interspersed with
audience questions and panel discussion. Christopher Z. Mooney, director of the
Institute for Legislative Studies at UIS, will moderate. Panelists and their
topics include Thomas Sullivan, co-chair of the 2002 Governor’s Commission on
Capital Punishment, “Reform: What Is Needed and Why?”; Kevin Lyons, Peoria
County State’s Attorney, “The Prosecutors’ Perspective on Capital Punishment
Reform”; and State Representative Mary K. O’Brien (D-Coal City), chair of the
House Committee on Judiciary II-Criminal Law, “The Politics of Capital
Punishment Reform.”
The Politics and Policy Series presents public forums on important
issues currently facing Illinois policymakers and citizens. The series brings
together public officials, journalists, and academics to analyze events and
share insights and perspectives with more depth and reflection than is
sometimes possible in everyday life.
UIS sponsors
of the series are the Institute for Legislative Studies, Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Center for Governmental Studies, Illinois Issues magazine,
and Political Studies Program.
For more
information, contact Mooney by phone at (217) 206-6574 or e-mail at mooney.christopher@uis.edu,
or go to http://ils.uis.edu.
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