News

One in Every 31 Adults in the U.S. Incarcerated or Under Community Supervision

EJI Director Speaks in England About Perils of Mass Incarceration

Alabama Supreme Court Schedules Highest Number of Executions in 60 Years

Poll Shows Decreasing Support for Death Penalty

Phillip Shaw Released After EJI Wins Relief from Death In Prison Sentence

Election Analysis Shows Only 10% of Whites in Alabama Voted for Obama

Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment Calls for Abolition of Death Penalty

Big Changes in Personnel at the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Alabama Supreme Court Will Review Right to Counsel for Death Row Prisoners on Appeal

EJI Attorney Argues in California Court that Death in Prison Sentence for 14-Year-Old is Unconstitutional

EJI Attorneys Argue Case Raising Houston County Prosecutor's Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

Prosecutor Eliminated All African American Jurors in Capital Trial, Some Because they Looked to be of “Low Intelligence”

Alabama Supreme Court to Address Denial of Credit for Time Served on Death Row

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Anthony Ray Hinton Case

Remembering Attorney, Civil Rights Champion, and Original EJI Board Member J.L. Chestnut Jr.

EJI to Argue Case Challenging Death in Prison Sentence Imposed on 14-Year-Old California Boy