Capital Punishment Expert and Author, Professor Evan Mandery to Discuss Supreme Court, Death Penalty March 3 at Rutgers

WHAT: “Wild Justice: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment,” the 25th annual Alice and Stephen Evangelides Lecture/Forum, presented by the Department of Political Science, Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

WHO: Professor Evan Mandery, chair, Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mandery is an expert on the death penalty and the author of Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America (W.W. Norton, 2013), a behind-the-scenes history of the seminal capital cases Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia.

A former capital litigator, Mandery is the author of 15 law review articles on the subject and a textbook currently in its second edition. He is also an active fiction writer and has published three novels including, most recently, Q (HarperCollins, 2011).

Milton Heumann, Rutgers distinguished professor of political science, will host.

WHEN: Monday, March 3, 2014

WHERE: Wood Lawn, 191 Ryders Lane on Rutgers’ Douglass Campus in New Brunswick

BACKGROUND: The Evangelides lectureship honors the late Alice Sofis Evangelides, Rutgers’ first employee counsel, who had a strong interest in public law, and her late husband Stephen.