April 19, 2010
On April 16, 2010, the Alabama Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the State of Alabama seeking to overturn the Court of Criminal Appeals's decision...
April 7, 2010
A Madison County Circuit Court judge followed the jury's sentencing verdict and imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without parole on Kenneth...
March 25, 2010
EJI staff with honoree Diane Jones, second from left.
On March 23, 2010, EJI honored George Kendall, Director of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey's...
March 19, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed the summary denial of death row inmate Robert Ingram's postconviction petition because it could not be...
March 5, 2010
On March 5, 2010, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Jodey Waldrop's conviction and death sentence, ruling that his jury improperly was...
February 22, 2010
Reasoning that a person who brings about a change in the law should be rewarded for his effort, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that death row inmate...
February 18, 2010
New EJI data analysis shows that the Eleventh Circuit - comprised of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia - has a higher per capita death sentencing rate...
February 8, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on February 5, 2010, reversed the capital murder conviction and death sentence imposed on Thomas Lane because...
January 29, 2010
New data shows that, while other states have dramatically slowed their rates of death sentencing and executions in recent years as evidence about...
January 29, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court this week stayed the execution of Robert Melson, which had been scheduled for February 18, 2010, because his appeal is...
