Equal Justice Initiative

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"
• Birmingham News: "Claim Death Row Inmates Lack Legal Aid Called 'Fiction'"
• Anniston Star Editorial: “Bad Justice on Display”
• Anniston Star Editorial: “Death Row and Wiser Heads”
• Birmingham News Editorial: “The Real World”
• Birmingham News Editorial: “A Judicious Decision”
• Decatur Daily Editorial: “Condemned Convicts Deserve Representation”
• Tuscaloosa News Editorial: “No Way for State to Justify Denying Lawyers to Inmates”