Richard Dieter, J.D.  received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and a masters degree from the Ohio State University.  He graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.  He is a member of the Maryland Bar, the Bar of the District of Columbia, and the Bar of the U. S. Supreme Court, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on the death penalty.  Dieter has been the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, DC since 1992.  The Center is a non-profit organization serving the public and the media with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

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