Noted Death Penalty Expert to Address
Amnesty Chapter at USM/L-A
October 2004
Professor Kimberly J. Cook, noted criminologist and national
expert on the death penalty will speak at the next monthly
meeting of USM-Lewiston-Auburn College's Amnesty International
chapter Wednesday, October 20. The meeting is free and open
to the public.
Cook, an associate professor of criminology at USM, earned
her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1994. Some
of her recent publications include Divided Passions: Public
Opinions on Abortion and the Death Penalty (1998, Northeastern
University Press) and "Abortion, Capital Punishment
and the Politics of God's Will" in the William and Mary
Institute of the Bill of Rights Law Journal (2000). Dr. Cook
was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2001 to conduct research
on restorative justice at the Australian National University.
This meeting of the USM/L-A Amnesty International chapter
will be held from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. in Room 170 on USM's Lewiston
campus, which located at 51 Westminster Street in Lewiston.
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