February 6, 2012
Bryan Stevenson testifies in Fayetteville, NC
North Carolina attorneys have begun presenting evidence in the first hearing under the state's...
November 11, 2011
The United States Supreme Court, over a forceful dissent, this week refused to review the case of Texas death row prisoner Duane Buck, leaving intact...
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...
September 26, 2011
Kilby Correctional Facility in Mt. Meigs, Alabama, has violated the civil rights of an inmate by prohibiting him from receiving Slavery by Another...
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...
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...
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...
December 20, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on December 17, 2010, remanded the case of death row prisoner Demetrius Jackson because there was evidence that...
