Experts

 __**Andrea Lyon**__ is a death penalty defense lawyer and a professor at DePaul University College of Law. At DePaul University College of Law she is also an associate dean for Clinical Programs and a Director of the Center of Justice in Capital Cases. Lyon once worked for the Cook Country Public Defenders’ Office. There she worked in the felony trial division, post-conviction/habeas corpus unit, preliminary hearing/first municipal unit, appeals division, and Chief of the Homicide Task Force. She has also tried over 130 homicide cases and has defended over 30 potential capital cases. Lyon has taken 19 defendants through the penalty phase and won all 19 of the cases. Lyon works to promote justice, social inequality, and improvement in the criminal justice system.

  **__Frank Zimring__** is a professor of law at Berkley and a death penalty expert. He has written many books including "The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment," which was released in 2003. At Boalt Hall’s Earl Warren Legal Institute he directs the criminal justice research program.