Death Penalty

Glenn Ford Is Exonerated and Released After 30 Years on Louisiana’s Death Row

United States Supreme Court Grants Relief to EJI Client Anthony Hinton

Poll Shows Support for the Death Penalty Among Americans Continues to Decline

Death Penalty Suspended in Washington State

Botched Ohio Execution Raises Concerns About Lethal Injection Drugs

Federal Court Rules Solitary Confinement for Death-Sentenced Prisoners Violates Due Process

Alabama Once Again Has Highest Death Sentencing Rate in the Country

EJI Tops List of Civil Rights Organizations

Supreme Court Justices Criticize Alabama’s Death Penalty

Poll Shows Support for Death Penalty Is Lowest in More Than 40 Years

Supreme Court to Clarify Constitutional Ban on Executing Intellectually Disabled Persons

New Report Shows Majority Of Death Penalty Cases Come from Only 2% of Counties in America

New Trial Ordered for Death Row Inmate George Martin Due to Prosecutor’s Misconduct

New Study Shows Costs of Colorado’s Death Penalty Far Outweigh Benefits

Racial Bias in Texas Death Penalty Case Gaining Attention

Federal Appeals Court Orders Further Review of Disabled Alabama Death Row Prisoner’s Sentence