“Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequalityContinueContinue reading “‘Litigating Implicit Bias’ Article by Eva Paterson in Latest Issue of Poverty & Race”
Category Archives: Death Penalty
EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.
In August, the EJS legal team traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, where we met with death penalty litigators from around the country to identify strategies to overturn McCleskey v. Kemp, a 1987 Supreme Court case in which a habeas petitioner presented statistical evidence showing grave disparities in the impositionContinueContinue reading “EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.”
Calif. Bill to Give Voters Chance to End the Death Penalty
California State Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland) recently introduced Senate Bill (SB) 490, which seeks to abolish the death penalty in California. SB 490 will provide the voters a direct opportunity to end a broken method of punishment by abolishing the death penalty. This is the first time that the California Legislature has considered the issueContinueContinue reading “Calif. Bill to Give Voters Chance to End the Death Penalty”