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State of Alabama Seeks to Execute Elderly, Incompetent Man Despite His Jury's Verdict for Life

Alabama Man Formerly on Death Row Is Sentenced to Life

Gary Tyler Released from Louisiana Prison After 41 Years

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Alabama Death Penalty Must Be Re-Examined

Incarceration of Refugee Children and Families

Data Shows Affluent Black Kids Are More Likely to Be Incarcerated Than Poor White Kids

Obama Administration Proposes New Approaches to Reduce Incarceration

Federal Court Reverses Death Sentence Because of South Carolina Prosecutor's Racially Biased Arguments

Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Preservation of Biological Evidence in Death Penalty Cases

Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights to More Than 200,000 Formerly Incarcerated People

EJI Invites Volunteers to Commemorate Lynching Victims at Soil Collection Event on May 7

EJI Will Challenge Extreme Sentences for Drug Offenses

EJI Honors Mrs. Mamie Lang Kirkland and Anthony Ray Hinton at Annual Benefit Dinner

Police Violence

Utah Joins Growing Number of States That Have Abolished Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences

EJI to Honor Survivors at Annual Dinner