September 9, 2010
In its fourth execution this year, the State of Alabama put to death Holly Wood today. The Alabama Supreme Court denied Mr. Wood's request for a...
August 22, 2010
A new study led by the Brennan Center for Justice has documented how the enormous rise in judicial campaign spending over the last decade threatens...
August 12, 2010
The State of Alabama executed Jeff Land today despite compelling evidence of his transformation into remorseful man who became a peacemaker and,...
August 2, 2010
On July 30, 2010, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Mark Brown’s conviction and death sentence, ruling that the trial judge illegally...
July 23, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court has issued an order setting two execution dates: Michael Land is scheduled to be executed on August 12, 2010, and Holly...
July 20, 2010
EJI attorneys recently argued that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals should order a new trial for death row prisoner Mark Brown because the judge...
July 15, 2010
James Fisher
After 27 years on Oklahoma's death row and more than a decade of expert assistance from EJI, James Fisher was released this week and...
July 13, 2010
Today in Kansas City, Missouri, the NAACP awarded EJI Director Bryan Stevenson the William Robert Ming Award for Advocacy at the opening plenary...
July 9, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court recently decided to review the cases of three inmates on death row: Brandon Washington, Brent Martin, and Jimmy...
July 1, 2010
On June 29, 2010, the United States Supreme Court reversed Georgia death row inmate Demarcus Sears’s case because his trial attorney failed to...
