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 Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals today remanded the cases of death row prisoners David Wilson and Andrew Lackey, after finding that the record...
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...
October 8, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on October 1, 2010, remanded the case of death row prisoner Donald Whatley because there was evidence that the...
June 22, 2010
Read the Report: Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy
Nearly 135 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights...
March 25, 2010
EJI staff with honoree Diane Jones, second from left.
On March 23, 2010, EJI honored George Kendall, Director of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey's...
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...
August 12, 2009
On August 11, 2009, North Carolina Governor Beverly Purdue signed into law the Racial Justice Act. The legislation recognizes the potential for...
April 7, 2009
Kenneth Frazier (left) won the release of James "Bo" Cochran, who spent 19 years on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit.
March 5, 2009
EJI client Earl McGahee, who is African American, was tried by an all-white jury in a county where the African American population was over 55%. The...
