Spring 2001: Does Capital Punishment Have a Future? Participants This section contains profiles of the public policy experts who participated in live chats as well as our 50 selected high schools. Students in participating classes wrote the high school profiles. After you've gotten to know the participants, visit Transcripts to read the chats they had. Experts Christopher Adams National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Death Penalty Resource Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights Shawn Armbrust Case Coordinator, Northwestern University School of Law Center on Wrongful Convictions Richard C. Dieter Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center Rick Halperin President, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; Member, Amnesty International USA Program to Abolish the Death Penalty National Advisory Committee Steve Mills Reporter, Chicago Tribune Kent Scheidegger Legal Director, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Ronald Tabak Special Counsel and Pro Bono Coordinator, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP; President, New York Lawyers Against the Death Penalty. High Schools Abilene H.S. (Texas) Amelia H.S. (Ohio) Arts & Humanities Focus Program (Nebraska) Balboa H.S. (California) Belaire H.S. (Louisiana) Benton Harbor H.S. (Louisiana) Blackfoot H.S. (Idaho) Bristow H.S. (Oklahoma) Brookwood H.S. (Georgia) Cathedral H.S. (Texas) Chatfield H.S. (Colorado) Cholla High Magnet School (Arizona) Cranford H.S. (New Jersey) East Newton H.S. (Missouri) Edco Youth Alternative (Massachusetts) Fayetteville H.S. (Arkansas) Forest Grove H.S. (Oregon) Furness H.S. (Pennsylvania) Glen A. Wilson H.S. (California) Hampden Academy (Maine) Happy Valley H.S. (Tennessee) Hinsdale Central H.S. (Illinois)  Jefferson H.S. (Ohio) Kansas City Career Academy (Missouri) Las Vegas H.S. (Nevada) Law, Government, and Community Service Magnet H.S. (New York) The Louise S. McGehee School (Louisiana) Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet H.S. (Tennessee) Mascoma Valley Regional H.S. (New Hampshire) Midwood H.S. at Brooklyn College (New York) Milford H.S. (Michigan) Mojave H.S. (Nevada) Moriarty H.S. (New Mexico) North Mecklenburg H.S. (North Carolina) Northside College Preparatory H.S. (Illinois) Oliver H.S. (Pennsylvania) Piedra Vista H.S. (New Mexico) Presque H.S. (Maine) Redmond H.S.(Oregon) Ringgold H.S. (Georgia) Roosevelt H.S. (Washington) Sam Rayburn H.S. (Texas) Sandalwood Senior H.S. (Florida) Shaw H.S. (Ohio) Springside School (Pennsylvania) St. Bonaventure H.S. (Louisiana) Triumph H.S. (Wyoming) Tupelo H.S. (Mississippi) Zephyrhills H.S. (Florida) Spring 2001 Summit Home | Learning Links & Readings Student Activities | Participants | Transcripts National Online Youth Summit Home