October 12, 2011
The American Law Institute, an independent organization composed of 4000 prominent judges, lawyers, and legal scholars working to clarify, modernize...
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...
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,...
March 8, 2011
On March 4, 2011, EJI attorneys argued at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of an EJI client who is serving life...
February 18, 2011
A Houston television station recently released a surveillance video in which Houston Police officers kick and punch a 15-year-old boy after he...
February 16, 2011
Justices on the Arkansas Supreme Court have divided on the question of whether it is constitutional to impose life imprisonment without parole...
February 10, 2011
The United States Supreme Court will hear argument on March 23, 2011, in J.D.B. v. North Carolina, No. 09-11121, to address whether a child's age...
