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EJI Mourns the Loss of Civil Rights Leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Law Professor Derrick Bell

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Alabama Case Where Mailroom Mistake Cost Death Row Inmate His Appeals

EJI Wins New Trial for Minister Wrongly Convicted of Murder

Appeals Court Orders New Trial For Death Row Prisoner

EJI Challenges Prison Officials for Banning Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book on Racial History

State of Alabama Executes Derrick Mason Even Though Sentencing Judge Admits His Death Sentence Was a Mistake

Troy Davis Executed in Georgia Despite Evidence of Innocence

Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution in Case Tainted by Racial Bias

Judge Who Sentenced Derrick Mason to Death Asks Governor to Commute Sentence Before Scheduled Execution

Court Affirms Death Sentence of Man Whom EJI Contends Is Innocent

New Florida Law Requiring Drug Tests Before the Needy Receive Help Challenged by Navy Veteran

Death Row Inmate and Two Other Arkansas Teens Released After 18 Years in Prison

Alabama Ranks 48th Among the 50 States In Quality of Life for Children

Texas Officials Block Investigation Into Evidence Indicating the State Executed an Innocent Man in 2004

Imposition of the Death Penalty Varies Wildly Within States

Former Alabama Correctional Lieutenant Charged With Murder of Inmate Rocrast Mack