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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

Alabama Supreme Court Orders Relief for Death Row Prisoner Barred from Filing Appeal

California Appeal Court Holds Virtual Life-Without-Parole Sentence Imposed on 14-Year-Old Child Is Unconstitutional

EJI Director Bryan Stevenson Receives Ford Foundation "Visionaries Award"

EJI Honors Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

EJI Asks U.S. Attorney General to Investigate Federal Law Violations in Alabama's Acquisition of Lethal Injection Drugs

Alabama's Illegal Execution Drugs Seized by the DEA

EJI Challenges Death-in-Prison Sentences for Young Teens in Two Cases at U.S. Supreme Court

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence After State Presented Highly Improper Victim Impact Evidence

FBI Investigating Physical Abuse of 14-Year-Old Handcuffed Boy by Calhoun County Sheriff

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Relief on Innocence Claim in Georgia Death Penalty Case

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Innocent Man May Not Sue Prosecutors Responsible for Misconduct That Nearly Resulted in his Execution