April 4, 2011
The United States Supreme Court on March 29, 2011, held in Connick v. Thompson that Louisiana prosecutors who failed to turn over exculpatory...
March 31, 2011
The State of Alabama executed Glenn Boyd today even though his jury decided that the death penalty was not appropriate in his case and that he should...
February 25, 2011
EJI won a new trial for death row inmate Jason Sharp today when the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that the Madison County prosecutor...
February 3, 2011
In the face of growing evidence about the unreliability of the death penalty, and in sharp contrast with the national trend again death sentences...
January 28, 2011
The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered further review for two EJI clients on Alabama's death row: Christopher Floyd and Oscar Doster. In separate...
January 3, 2011
The Alabama Supreme Court on December 30, 2010, ruled that Kenneth Billups was entitled to a new trial because his jury was unlawfully allowed to...
December 10, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an execution date of January 13, 2011, for death row prisoner Leroy White, even though his case still is pending in...
November 30, 2010
In a review of New York University law professor David Garland's book, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, former...
November 5, 2010
The State of Alabama put to death Phillip Hallford today, despite questions about whether prosecutors violated laws requiring them to disclose to the...
October 18, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on October 6, 2010, heard oral argument in Connick v. Thompson, in which the Court will decide whether a man who was...
