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Alabama Executes Glenn Boyd Despite Jury's Life Verdict

Questions Raised About Excessive Punishment and Torture of Children Detained as "Enemy Combatants"

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether Mailroom Mistake Should Bar Appeals for Alabama Death Row Prisoner

Alabama Supreme Court Rejects Trial Judge's Order Denying Relief Prepared by Prosecutor on Death Penalty Case

Alabama Supreme Court Sets Execution Date for William Boyd

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Prisoners May File Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit to Obtain DNA Testing

Illinois Abolishes the Death Penalty

EJI Challenges Capital Murder Conviction and Life Without Parole Sentence of 16-Year-Old at U.S. Court of Appeals

Alabama Rural Poverty and the Basic Human Right to Water and Sanitation is Subject of United Nations Inquiry

Alabama Death Row Prisoner Wins New Trial From Appeals Court Due to Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

Alabama Judicial Races Are Most Expensive in the Nation

Videotaped Police Brutality in Houston Generates Attention

Arkansas Supreme Court Divides on Constitutionality of Life Imprisonment Without Parole for Juveniles Convicted of Homicide

U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Whether Middle School Students Should Have More Protection Before Police Interrogations

Alabama's Death Sentencing and Execution Rates Continue to be Highest in the Country

Alabama Supreme Court to Review Two EJI Death Penalty Cases