Death Penalty

EJI Attorneys Argue Case Raising Houston County Prosecutor’s Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

Prosecutor Eliminated All African American Jurors in Capital Trial, Some Because they Looked to be of “Low Intelligence”

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Anthony Ray Hinton Case

EJI Challenges Racial Bias in Jury Selection in Alabama Death Penalty Case

Costs of Federal Death Penalty Scrutinized

Alabama Death Row Inmate Herbert Williams Wins Relief From Eleventh Circuit

EJI Challenges Elimination of Right to Counsel for Death Row Prisoners on Appeal

EJI Challenges Death Sentence of Intellectually Disabled Man

EJI Challenges Death Sentence Infected by Racial Bias and Imposed Despite the Jury’s Life Sentence

State Loses Evidence for DNA Testing

Alabama Supreme Court Stays Tommy Arthur’s Execution

Court Sets Execution Date for Tommy Arthur

Human Rights Investigator Visits Alabama

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty for Child Rape is Unconstitutional

State Seeks to Resume Executions

Study Reveals Geographic Disparities in Death Sentencing Among Alabama Counties