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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

Statement on the Execution of Jack Trawick

EJI Director Bryan Stevenson Wins Gruber Justice Prize

State of Alabama Executes Jack Trawick

Alabama Passes Bill Restricting Access to DNA Testing for Death Row Prisoners

Gadsden Times Editorial Urges State of Alabama to Rethink Death Penalty