May 10, 2013
On April 29, 2013, the Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill that would speed up appeals in cases where the death penalty has been imposed...
May 7, 2013
On Friday, May 3, 2013, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Jeffery Riggs's capital murder conviction and death sentence and ordered a...
May 2, 2013
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley today signed into law a bipartisan measure that abolishes capital punishment in the State of Maryland, making it...
April 3, 2013
On Friday, March 29, 2013, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Kevin Towles's capital murder conviction and death sentence because the...
March 14, 2013
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Today there is widespread recognition that the goal of providing counsel to the nation's poor, stated by the United States...
March 11, 2013
On February 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court heard argument in a Texas case about whether to extend the rule that allows a defendant to...
March 6, 2013
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on February 27, 2013, ordered a new trial for Alabama death row inmate Ricky Adkins...
March 4, 2013
EJI will honor former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Elaine Jones and Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., co-founders...
February 18, 2013
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reversed the capital murder conviction and death sentence imposed on Lam Luong, finding that he was...
February 12, 2013
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O’Neill explained in a recent dissent from an order setting an execution date for Jeffrey Wogenstahl that the "...
