Death Penalty

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

Death Row Inmate and Two Other Arkansas Teens Released After 18 Years in Prison

Texas Officials Block Investigation Into Evidence Indicating the State Executed an Innocent Man in 2004

Imposition of the Death Penalty Varies Wildly Within States

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

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

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

Alabama’s Illegal Execution Drugs Seized by the DEA