While its amicus brief in People v. Harris, the first death penalty case to reach the New York Court of Appeals since capital punishment was reinstated in 1995, may have been its most noteworthy of late, the Cornell Death Penalty Project has built a reputation as one of the most active death penalty resource centers in the country.

The project, which since its founding in 1996 has represented more than 30 defendants at either the pre- and post-conviction phase of trial, was the brain child of Cornell Professors John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Stephen P. Garvey and Theodore Eisenberg.

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