February 8, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on February 5, 2010, reversed the capital murder conviction and death sentence imposed on Thomas Lane because...
January 22, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on January 19, 2010, issued a decision in Wellons v. Hall, a Georgia death-penalty case in which jurors gave the...
January 20, 2010
The United States Supreme Court today denied relief in Wood v. Allen, an Alabama case which asked the Court to address whether trial lawyers...
December 7, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed the case of Jason Sharp, who was sentenced to death following a trial tainted by the State's...
October 13, 2009
More questions about the reliability of the death penalty were raised when Yancy Douglas, 35, and Paris Powell, 36, were released from Oklahoma's...
October 6, 2009
In the wake of scientific evidence documenting that the State of Texas executed an innocent man when it put to death Cameron Willingham in 2004 for...
September 2, 2009
A report just released shows that Cameron Willingham was innocent of the arson for which the State of Texas executed him in 2004.
August 18, 2009
On August 17, 2009, the United States Supreme Court, in an unusual and important mid-summer action, ordered a federal district court to hold a...
July 2, 2009
On June 25, 2009, the United States Supreme Court held that prosecutors cannot use forensic reports as evidence in a criminal trial without giving...
June 25, 2009
On June 18, 2009, the United States Supreme Court held that prisoners have no right to obtain DNA evidence for testing that could prove they are...
