EJI’s filing of a lawsuit on behalf of death row prisoners who had no lawyers to pursue critical post-conviction appeals led to a number of editorials criticizing the state’s failure to provide counsel.
- Birmingham News: "Appeal Attempts to Give Inmates More Legal Help" [1]
- Birmingham News: "Claim Death Row Inmates Lack Legal Aid Called 'Fiction'" [2]
- Anniston Star Editorial: “Bad Justice on Display” [3]
- Anniston Star Editorial: “Death Row and Wiser Heads” [4]
- Birmingham News Editorial: “The Real World” [5]
- Birmingham News Editorial: “A Judicious Decision” [6]
- Decatur Daily Editorial: “Condemned Convicts Deserve Representation” [7]
- Tuscaloosa News Editorial: “No Way for State to Justify Denying Lawyers to Inmates” [8]
