Death Penalty

U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Second Time that Alabama’s Death Penalty Must Be Re-Examined

Alabama’s Death Penalty System Generates Growing Criticism

Supreme Court Holds Georgia Prosecutors Illegally Removed Black Jurors in Death Penalty Case

Tough-on-Crime Judge With Decades of Experience Questions Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

Alabama Judges Ignoring Jury Verdicts Leads to Nation’s Highest Death Sentencing Rate

Supreme Court Affirms Stay of Execution for Vernon Madison

Vernon Madison Granted a Stay of Execution By Eleventh Circuit

State of Alabama Seeks to Execute Elderly, Incompetent Man Despite His Jury’s Verdict for Life

Alabama Man Formerly on Death Row Is Sentenced to Life

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Alabama Death Penalty Must Be Re-Examined

Federal Court Reverses Death Sentence Because of South Carolina Prosecutor’s Racially Biased Arguments

Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Preservation of Biological Evidence in Death Penalty Cases

Alabama Appeals Court Orders New Trial for EJI Client Derek Horton

Florida Abolishes Death Sentences by Judicial Override

Supreme Court Finds Prosecutorial Misconduct Requires New Trial for Louisiana Man on Death Row

Judge Rules Alabama’s Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional