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Creation Date
4-4-2024
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 | 12:30 PM | Eck Hall of Law, Room 3140
The Dark(er) Side of the Death Penalty
Speakers:
Jonah Horwitz is an attorney in the Capital Habeas Unit for the Federal Defender Services of Idaho. In that capacity, he represents death-row inmates in federal habeas proceedings and state post-conviction actions in Idaho and Nevada. Jonah graduated in 2006 from the honors program at Swarthmore College with a major in philosophy and a minor in history. In 2010, he received his law degree from Northwestern University, where he worked in the MacArthur Justice Center, interned in a U.S. Attorney’s Office, and was awarded Order of the Coif.
Aliza Plener Cover, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, College of Law at the University of Idaho. Aliza is the vice president of the Board of Directors for the Federal Defenders of Idaho. Her teaching and scholarly interests focus on criminal law and procedure, capital punishment, evidence, and constitutional law. Before moving to Idaho, she was a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she taught Legal Research & Writing, Moot Court, and a course on the death penalty. Professor Cover earned her undergraduate degree in English and her J.D. from Yale.
Sponsor: Death Penalty Abolition Society