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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

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