January 14, 2011
Leroy White
The State of Alabama today executed Leroy White over strong opposition from the family of the crime victim and in spite of the jury's...
January 14, 2011
This evening, minutes before the scheduled execution in Alabama of Leroy White, the United States Supreme Court issued a temporary stay of execution...
December 15, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on December 13, 2010, denied the State of Alabama's request for review of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals's...
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 22, 2010
The United States Supreme Court will soon decide whether to grant review in the case of Cory Maples, who has been denied review of his conviction and...
October 6, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on October 1, 2010, ordered a new trial for Alabama death row prisoner Larry Smith, whose lawyer failed to...
September 30, 2010
A recent opinion from the California Supreme Court examines that state’s struggle to find qualified lawyers willing to handle postconviction appeals...
September 9, 2010
In its fourth execution this year, the State of Alabama put to death Holly Wood today. The Alabama Supreme Court denied Mr. Wood's request for a...
July 1, 2010
On June 29, 2010, the United States Supreme Court reversed Georgia death row inmate Demarcus Sears’s case because his trial attorney failed to...
