- The Death Penalty in Alabama: Judge Override [1]
Documents Alabama's unique and arbitrary practice of permitting elected trial judges to override jury life verdicts and impose death sentences.
- Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy [2]
Details ongoing problem of racial bias in jury selection.
- Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison [3]
EJI report documents 73 cases where 13- and 14-year-old children in the United States have been tried as adults and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
- Criminal Justice Reform in Alabama: A Report and Analysis of Criminal Justice Issues in Alabama, Part One [4]
149-page report addressing sentencing, probation, prison conditions and parole in Alabama.
- Confronting Mass Imprisonment and Restoring Fairness to Collateral Review of Criminal Cases [5]
Article by Bryan Stevenson discusses how mass incarceration has fundamentally changed the administration of criminal justice in the United States and discussing growing evidence that the dramatic rise in the number of people being sent to prison has resulted in an extraordinary increase in the number of wrongful convictions, illegal sentences, and unjust imprisonments.