August 29, 2008
Author Susan Kuklin's newest book, No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row, presents the stories of individuals who were sentenced...
August 20, 2008
EJI is challenging the ruling of a Houston County, Alabama, trial judge, which refused to shield death row prisoner Jerry Jerome Smith from execution...
August 13, 2008
Bobby Waldrop was sentenced to death in Randolph County, Alabama, even though his jury decided that he should be sentenced to life in prison without...
July 31, 2008
The State of Alabama revealed yesterday that it lost DNA evidence that could exonerate death row inmate Tommy Arthur. Convicted for the 1982 murder-...
July 31, 2008
Today the Alabama Supreme Court granted Tommy Arthur's request for a stay of his execution. For years, Mr. Arthur has been asking the State for an...
July 24, 2008
A study entitled "State Public Opinion, the Death Penalty, and the Practice of Electing Judges" and published in the April 2008 American Journal of...
July 9, 2008
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an execution date for Tommy Arthur on July 31, 2008. If the execution goes forward, it will be the first in...
June 30, 2008
Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, visited EJI on June 24, 2008, as part of his...
June 25, 2008
The United States Supreme Court ruled today in Kennedy v. Louisiana that the death penalty is unconstitutional for crimes that did not result, and...
May 29, 2008
On May 26, 2008, United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism Doudou Diene heard testimony from EJI Executive Director Bryan Stevenson as part of his...
