April 3, 2009
One year after Oklahoma death row prisoner James Fisher, with help from EJI, won reversal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence because...
April 2, 2009
On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, the Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Harbison v. Bell and held that federal law authorizes...
March 18, 2009
Today, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico signed a bill abolishing capital punishment in that state. “If the State is going to undertake this...
March 13, 2009
The United States Supreme Court today denied the State of Alabama's application to vacate the stay of Phillip Hallford's March 19, 2009, execution...
March 5, 2009
EJI client Earl McGahee, who is African American, was tried by an all-white jury in a county where the African American population was over 55%. The...
March 1, 2009
On February 26, 2009, the Alabama Supreme Court scheduled Jack Trawick to be executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2009. This is the sixth...
February 25, 2009
The United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in Caperton v. Massey about whether West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent...
February 23, 2009
On Friday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejected the State of Alabama's request to vacate the stay of execution the federal court...
February 20, 2009
The State of Alabama executed Danny Bradley by lethal injection on Thursday, February 12, 2009, without allowing DNA testing that may have proved Mr...
February 17, 2009
Fast Company expert blogger Alice Korngold identified the Equal Justice Initiative as a Top Ten nonprofit organization.
