October 10, 2009
Dozens of community members participated in a discussion and book-signing by acclaimed actor, producer, and human rights activist Mike Farrell on...
October 9, 2009
The State of Alabama executed Max Payne by lethal injection yesterday at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama. Mr. Payne was the sixth person to be put...
October 6, 2009
In the wake of scientific evidence documenting that the State of Texas executed an innocent man when it put to death Cameron Willingham in 2004 for...
October 1, 2009
With state and local budget crises emerging and intensifying across the recession-wracked United States, jurisdictions are re-examining the death...
September 24, 2009
Human rights work on behalf of Romani victims of discrimination and advocacy for poor people in the criminal justice system in the Deep South was the...
September 16, 2009
The scheduled execution of Romell Broom in Ohio was delayed for a week after prison staff unsuccessfully attempted to lethally inject him for over...
September 2, 2009
A report just released shows that Cameron Willingham was innocent of the arson for which the State of Texas executed him in 2004.
August 26, 2009
On August 24, 2009, attorneys with the Equal Justice Initiative filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Alabama death row...
August 18, 2009
On August 17, 2009, the United States Supreme Court, in an unusual and important mid-summer action, ordered a federal district court to hold a...
August 17, 2009
M. Watt Espy, Jr., of Headland, Alabama, died this week, leaving behind a lifetime of work chronicling executions in the United States. Widely...
