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EJI Calls for Criminal Charges Against Prison Guards Involved in Brutal Beating Death of Alabama Prisoner

Department of Justice and Alabama Churches File Lawsuits Against Alabama's New Immigration Law

Federal Court Finds Inadequate Lawyering in Three Recent Death Penalty Cases

Alabama Newspapers Call for Reform of Judge Override

New EJI Report Finds Arbitrary, Biased, and Unreliable Death Sentencing When Alabama Judges Override Jury Verdicts of Life

Texas Executes Mexican National Despite Pleas from White House and State Department to Grant a Stay

David Baldus, Author of Groundbreaking Study on Race and the Death Penalty, Dies

U.S. Supreme Court Decides Defendants Have Right to Question Forensic Expert Who Conducted Tests Used at Trial

Alabama’s Recently Enacted Immigration Law Draws Criticism

U.S. Supreme Court Orders More Protections for Juveniles Who Are Interrogated by Police

Alabama Executes Eddie Powell Despite Credible Evidence That He Was Intellectually Disabled

U.S. Supreme Court to Address Right to Counsel in Postconviction Proceedings

High Cost of Death Penalty Causes States to Reconsider Capital Punishment

United States Supreme Court Upholds Order to Release 40,000 Prisoners Due to Overcrowding in California Prisons

Wisconsin Supreme Court Divides on the Constitutionality of Life Without Parole Sentences for Juveniles Convicted of Homicide

Alabama Executes Jason Williams Despite Recent DEA Seizure of Illegally Obtained Drugs For Carrying Out Executions