November 1, 2007
The Alabama Supreme Court on October 30, 2007, set two new execution dates despite what appears to be a nationwide halt on executions pending the...
October 30, 2007
After studying the death penalty systems of eight states over the past three years, the American Bar Association (ABA) has renewed its call for a...
October 26, 2007
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the October 25, 2007, execution of Danny Siebert just hours before it was scheduled to take place. The...
October 2, 2007
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted federal habeas relief to Alabama death row prisoner William Glenn Boyd...
October 2, 2007
On September 25, 2007, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Baze et al. v. Rees et al., No. 07-5439, to address whether the lethal...
September 27, 2007
For the first time in the modern death penalty era, an Alabama governor has granted a reprieve shortly before an Alabama prisoner was scheduled to be...
September 15, 2007
The Alabama Supreme Court has set execution dates for two death row inmates. Tommy Arthur is scheduled to be executed on September 27, 2007, and...
September 15, 2007
In 2005, Alabama sentenced more people to death than the neighboring states of Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee combined.
April 25, 2007
European Union Ambassador John Bruton spent part of his three-day visit to Alabama with activists gathered at the Equal Justice Initiative. Bruton...
