October 12, 2011
The American Law Institute, an independent organization composed of 4000 prominent judges, lawyers, and legal scholars working to clarify, modernize...
October 10, 2011
Ronald Evans was sentenced to life in federal prison with no possibility of parole for drug offenses that occurred in Norfolk, Virginia, when he was...
September 5, 2011
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., known as the "West Memphis Three," were 18, 16, and 17 years old, respectively, when they...
June 17, 2011
The United States Supreme Court re-affirmed that the legal system should treat children and adults differently in J.D.B. v. North Carolina, which...
May 20, 2011
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday upheld the life-imprisonment-without-parole sentence imposed on 14-year-old Omer Ninham. Chief Justice...
May 5, 2011
EJI Director Bryan Stevenson this week received the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. He was honored as one of twelve social innovators chosen for...
May 4, 2011
Photo by Steve Petteway,
Collection of the U.S. Supreme Court
EJI honored John Paul Stevens, retired Associate Justice of the United States...
April 22, 2011
In two separate cases of 14-year-old children who were convicted of homicide and sentenced to die in prison, EJI lawyers are asking the United States...
April 13, 2011
A young black teen has asserted that he was physically assaulted by Sheriff Larry Amerson after being handcuffed and shackled while visiting the...
March 28, 2011
While there has been considerable coverage and some debate about excessive punishment and torture of war detainees captured by the United States,...
