Dr. Hugo Bedau (late) joined the Tufts faculty in 1966 and retired in 1999. Prior to his appointment at Tufts, he taught at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and Reed College. He is best known for his long-standing interest in issues having to do with punishment in general and the death penalty in particular, on which he was an international expert. Professor Bedau was editor of the standard work on capital punishment,The Death Penalty in America, and several other books, and he published three volumes of his own essays: Death is Different, The Courts, the Constitution, and Capital Punishment, and Killing as Punishment.