The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is expand­ing its Capital Punishment Project to include lit­i­ga­tion in addi­tion to its already estab­lished pub­lic edu­ca­tion efforts. The expand­ed pro­gram will be led by John Holdridge, who has been named the Capital Punishment Project’s new direc­tor. ​“John Holdridge is one of the nation’s pre­mier death penal­ty lit­i­ga­tors. He has fought the death penal­ty in court­rooms around the coun­try for more than a decade and now brings that exper­tise and com­mit­ment to the ACLU,” not­ed ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero as he announced Holdridge’s appoint­ment. The ACLU stat­ed that in addi­tion to its broad pub­lic edu­ca­tion efforts relat­ed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, it now plans to expand its scope to include focus­ing on legal cas­es that high­light the unfair­ness and inequities of the death penal­ty sys­tem. (ACLU Press Release, ​“ACLU Expands Capital Punishment Project,” December 9, 2005). See ACLU Capital Punishment Project’s Web site. See also Representation and Resources.

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