January 31, 2009
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed today that Alabama death row inmate Glenn Holladay cannot be executed because he is mentally retarded...
January 16, 2009
The State of Alabama executed Jimmy Callahan today, after the Alabama Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court refused to review his claim that...
January 15, 2009
A petition filed by EJI attorneys in the United States Supreme Court asking the court to stay Jimmy Callahan's execution, scheduled for January 15,...
January 9, 2009
EJI lawyers today filed a petition asking the Alabama Supreme Court to stay the execution of Alabama death row inmate Jimmy Callahan, who is...
January 9, 2009
EJI's largest funder, the JEHT Foundation, will shut down at the end of this month and will not be able to provide grants committed to EJI for the...
December 15, 2008
Mississippi Supreme Court Presiding Justice Hon. Oliver E. Diaz Jr. last week in a dissenting opinion joined by Justice Graves held that the death...
December 8, 2008
In an address to the Prison Reform Trust in London on December 8, 2008, EJI Director Bryan Stevenson warned that building American-style prisons to...
December 4, 2008
In the next five months, Alabama seeks to execute an unprecedented number of people. The Alabama Supreme Court announced on December 3, 2008, that...
December 1, 2008
The latest national Gallup poll on crime found that support for the death penalty in America is now at its lowest level in the past thirty years....
November 13, 2008
The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to examine the state's death penalty, concluded on November 12,...
