January 22, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on January 19, 2010, issued a decision in Wellons v. Hall, a Georgia death-penalty case in which jurors gave the...
January 20, 2010
The United States Supreme Court today denied relief in Wood v. Allen, an Alabama case which asked the Court to address whether trial lawyers...
January 5, 2010
The American Law Institute, comprised of 4000 judges, lawyers, and law professors who shape and help promote consistency in the law throughout the...
December 22, 2009
On December 18, 2009, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed David Riley's capital murder conviction and remanded his case for a new trial...
December 7, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed the case of Jason Sharp, who was sentenced to death following a trial tainted by the State's...
December 1, 2009
The United States Supreme Court reaffirmed this week in a case from Florida, Porter v. McCollum, that a defense lawyer must conduct a reasonable...
November 24, 2009
On November 12, 2009, Herbert Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
November 16, 2009
Ohio is poised to become the first state in the country to change to a single-drug lethal injection. The new protocol comes in the wake of several...
October 15, 2009
EJI lawyers Bryan Stevenson and Brandon Buskey, seated, argue before the Supreme Court.
On October 8, 2009, the Alabama Supreme Court and the...
October 13, 2009
More questions about the reliability of the death penalty were raised when Yancy Douglas, 35, and Paris Powell, 36, were released from Oklahoma's...
