November 1, 2011
The Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday found that unreliable fire science methods, which led to the wrongful conviction of Cameron Todd...
October 24, 2011
On October 19, 2011, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) filed a civil rights lawsuit contending that District Attorney Douglas Valeska has illegally...
October 20, 2011
The State of Alabama executed Christopher Johnson today, despite serious questions about his mental competency, the fairness of his trial, and the...
October 5, 2011
The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in the case of Alabama death row prisoner Cory Maples, who was denied review of his claims in federal...
September 30, 2011
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals today reversed Montez Spradley's conviction and death sentence because the bulk of the State's evidence against...
September 22, 2011
The State of Alabama executed Derrick Mason today even though the sentencing judge who condemned him to die admitted his judgment was a mistake, born...
September 21, 2011
The State of Georgia executed Troy Davis tonight, despite evidence that he is innocent of the killing for which he was sentenced to death and despite...
September 20, 2011
The United States Supreme Court stayed the September 15, 2011, execution of Duane Buck, whom Texas planned to execute despite its earlier admission...
September 16, 2011
Madison County Circuit Judge Loyd H. Little, Jr., has requested that Alabama Governor Robert Bentley exercise his authority to commute to life...
September 12, 2011
Anthony Ray Hinton has now spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row for two murders that EJI contends he did not commit. Asked for the third...
