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EJI’s Reconstruction in America Report Changes Picture of Lynching in America

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The Continuing Challenge of Understanding Racial Injustice in America

02.26.21

Ban On Prosecuting Young Teens as Adults is Upheld By California Supreme Court

02.25.21

New Mexico Lawmakers Advance Bill to End Qualified Immunity for Abusive Police

02.19.21

EJI Partners with Community to Memorialize Lynching Victims in Forsyth County, Georgia

02.17.21

Stabbing Death at St. Clair Is 14th Alabama Prison Homicide in Past Year

02.15.21

Alabama's Denial of Religious Support to Condemned Man Leads to Stay of Execution

02.12.21

Supreme Court Bars Alabama from Executing Willie Smith Without Pastor By His Side

Updated02.12.21

Virginia Legislature Votes to Abolish the Death Penalty

Updated02.05.21

Alabama Man Dies in Overheated Prison Cell

02.01.21

Mass Lynchings

01.29.21

President Biden Phases Out Federal Use of Private Prisons

01.27.21

Police Who Kill Unarmed Black People Continue to Avoid Accountability

01.26.21

EJI Partners with Community to Memorialize Lynching Victims in New Orleans

01.22.21

Political Violence and Racial Inequality in America

01.19.21

Dr. Martin Luther King's Moral Opposition to the Death Penalty

01.18.21

Federal Executions Continue Despite Serious Questions of Fairness

Updated01.16.21

Ohio Abolishes Life Without Parole for Children

01.13.21

Federal Government Executes Lisa Montgomery

Updated01.13.21

Global Abolition of Death Penalty Continues in Kazakhstan

01.08.21

New Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón Issues Major Reforms

01.06.21