September 5, 2011
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., known as the "West Memphis Three," were 18, 16, and 17 years old, respectively, when they...
August 22, 2011
State officials in Texas are blocking a full investigation into evidence showing that Cameron Willingham was not guilty of an arson that killed his...
August 12, 2011
Attorneys and scholars are raising arguments about the arbitrariness of the death penalty by pointing to inconsistencies in death sentences that...
July 29, 2011
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered relief in two Florida cases and a Georgia case after finding that lawyers representing the...
July 25, 2011
Following the release of EJI's new report on judge override in Alabama, the state's major newspapers are calling for reform of the override law.
July 11, 2011
Allowing elected trial judges in Alabama to override jury verdicts of life in capital cases and impose the death penalty has resulted in some of the...
July 10, 2011
On Thursday, July 7, the State of Texas executed Humberto Garcia Leal, a Mexican national, despite the fact that state officials broke the law when...
July 1, 2011
David C. Baldus, a University of Iowa College of Law professor whose empirical research powerfully demonstrated racial bias in the application of the...
June 28, 2011
The United States Supreme Court held on June 23, 2011, in Bullcoming v. New Mexico that prosecutors cannot use forensic reports as evidence in a...
June 16, 2011
The State of Alabama executed Eddie Powell today despite credible evidence that he was mentally retarded.
