Capital Punishment Center
In the News
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States speaks on the death penalty in the United States
- "An interview with UT Capital Punishment Clinic Director Rob Owen" [Video]
The Texas Tribune, October 22, 2010 - “Texas
executions at issue as Supreme Court reviews lethal injection” [PDF]
KEYE-TV, October 1, 2007 - “Hiatus
Possible on Texas Executions” [PDF]
The Associated Press, September 29, 2007 - “Are
executions on hold nationwide?” [PDF]
The Associated Press, September 29, 2007 - “Supreme Court to
consider use of lethal injection” [PDF]
Austin American Statesman, September 26, 2007 - “Supreme Court to
review drugs used in lethal injections” [PDF]
Dallas Morning News, September 26, 2007 - “Suspect in Dallas
officer’s slaying incompetent, his lawyers say,”
[PDF]
Dallas Morning News, September 17, 2007
UT Law Newsroom
- Capital Punishment Center to host symposium on “Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty,” March 22–23, 2013
March 7, 2013 - Sister Helen Prejean to speak about the death penalty in the United States, October 11, 2012
September 28, 2012 - Law School symposium to address lynching and the death penalty, March 23-24, 2012
March 1, 2012 - Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ray Bonner to discuss recent book, Anatomy of Injustice, March 5, 2012
February 29, 2012 - National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Spotlight on Professor Jordan Steiker
October 25, 2011 - Professor Jordan Steiker in The New Republic discusses prospects for judicial abolition of the death penalty in the wake of Davis execution
September 27, 2011 - Professor Jordan Steiker in The New Republic discusses Governor Perry’s role in administering the Texas death penalty
October 9, 2011 - Supreme Court decides Switzer v. Skinner in favor of Capital Punishment Clinic client
March 7, 2011 - "Capital Punishment Clinic Director Rob Owen appears before U.S. Supreme Court for Skinner v. Switzer"
October 13, 2010 - Twenty Years on Death Row: The Capital Punishment Clinic enters its third decade of providing representation to indigent men and women facing the death penalty in Texas
Summer 2009 - Capital Punishment Clinic heads back to U.S. Supreme Court for the fourth time in four years
May 26, 2010 - Capital Punishment Clinic Wins New Penalty Trial for Client
April 29, 2010 - Discussion on capital punishment and the Supreme Court, September 30, 2009
September 25, 2009 - Capital Punishment Clinic wins Batson challenge for longtime client
January 21, 2009 - Capital Punishment
Center and the Independent Film Channel present death penalty
program at the Texas Capitol
March 5, 2008 - Capital Punishment Clinic
named "Impact Player" for 2007 by Texas
Lawyer
January 11, 2008 - Capital Punishment
Center to host review of landmark death penalty cases,
November 2–3
October 16, 2007 - Professor Rob Owen
Interviewed by CBS About the Practice of Lethal Injection in Death
Penalty Cases
October 2, 2007 - Professors Rob Owen
and Jordan Steiker discuss capital punishment issues and the
U.S. Supreme Court, Oct. 1
September 28, 2007 - Law Clinic Wins Three Supreme
Court Cases
April 25, 2007 - Capital Punishment Clinic
Assists in Panetti Case before U.S. Supreme Court
April 18, 2007 - Supreme Persuasion
April 12, 2007 - UT Law
School’s Capital Punishment Clinic Argues Three Cases Before
U.S. Supreme Court
January 18, 2007 - UT Law Presents Symposium on
Legal Representation in Capital Cases
January 8, 2007 - Capital Punishment Clinic
Returns to U.S. Supreme Court
October 10, 2007 - UT Law Creates Capital
Punishment Center and Expands Programs Relating to the Death
Penalty
April 6, 2006 - UT Law Capital
Punishment Clinic Wins Relief from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
in Capital Case
March 3, 2006 - Capital Punishment Clinic
Wins Second Case This Year at U.S. Supreme Court
November 15, 2004 - Capital Punishment Clinic
Wins Case in United States Supreme Court
June 24, 2004