Last night’s execution of an innocent man, Troy Anthony Davis, by the State of Georgia demands that we renew efforts to end the death penalty. “Troy’s execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States,” wrote Ben Jealous of the NAACP last night. “The worldContinueContinue reading “We’re Ready to End the Death Penalty and We Need Your Help”
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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.”
The Death Penalty and North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act
By Abby Bar-Lev On August 11, 2009, North Carolina Governor Perdue took an affirmative step in providing racial justice advocates a tool to ferret out racial bias in the criminal justice by signing the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. The Racial Justice Act, the product of a concerted effort by legislators and racial justice advocates, provides defendants in capital casesContinueContinue reading “The Death Penalty and North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act”