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Alabama to Execute Max Payne Next Week, as States Across the Country Re-Examine Use of Death Penalty

Gruber Award Ceremony Held in Birmingham

EJI Wins New Trial for Mother Illegally Sentenced to Life Without Parole

Report Documents the Execution of an Innocent Man in Texas

EJI Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Guarantee Counsel for Alabama Death Row Prisoners on Direct Appeal

United States Supreme Court Orders Hearing on Innocence Claim in Georgia Death Penalty Case

M. Watt Espy, America's Foremost Historian of Executions, Dies

New North Carolina Law Aims to Combat Race Bias in Death Penalty

Police Assault Deaf, Mentally Disabled Man After He Failed to Respond to Audible Commands in Mobile, Alabama

Alabama Leads Nation in Sentencing Black Kids to Life Imprisonment

New Report Documents Rise in Arrests and Mistreatment of Homeless People

State of Alabama Pardons Former EJI Client Mack Kirby

ABA President Calls for Reform of Alabama’s Death Penalty

Intellectually Disabled Former Death Row Prisoner Glenn Holladay Sentenced to Life Without Parole

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Defendants Have Right to Question Forensic Witnesses

U.S. Supreme Court Says Prisoners Have No Right to Test DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate Them