Speaker: Victor Streib McCook Auditorium Monday, March 2, 2006 - 5:00-6:30pm The centuries-old debate over the death penalty typically dwells on theoretical, philosophical and religious pros and cons. Issues that arise in the day-to-day operations of the death penalty system, however, encompass less lofty but perhaps more troubling concerns. The fundamental question is not whether certain crimes and offenders deserve the death penalty. Rather, it is whether we can trust a hodgepodge of politicians and government agencies to carry out the death penalty in a fair and rational manner. The death penalty system is twisted by the same forces that plague our entire society; discrimination based on race, sex, class, religion, social orientation and poverty, all compounded by human error.