Publications & Testimony

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has vacat­ed the con­vic­tion of death-row pris­on­er Clinton Young, whose pros­e­cu­tor was also on the pay­roll of the judge who presided over the tri­al and decid­ed his trial…

The Nevada Supreme Court has found that a pris­on­er who has been on the state’s death row for more than forty years is​“actu­al­ly inno­cent” of the death penal­ty and must…

After more than six years with no exe­cu­tions and with a tri­al pend­ing on the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the state’s lethal injec­tion process, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has issued death war­rants set­ting sev­en exe­cu­tion dates in a less than five-month peri­od between late October 2021 and mid-March…

On September 19, 2021, com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers in Chattanooga, Tennessee ded­i­cat­ed a memo­r­i­al to Ed Johnson, an inno­cent Black man wrong­ful­ly con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in 1906 for alleged­ly rap­ing a white woman and lynched by a white mob after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order stay­ing his exe­cu­tion. The memo­r­i­al also hon­ors the two lawyers who worked…

An African-American man sen­tenced to death in Hamilton County, Ohio in 1999 for the mur­der of a white man is seek­ing to over­turn his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence based on evi­dence from a recent­ly pub­lished study that he was more than five times more like­ly to be sen­tenced to death because of his race and the race of the victim…

“What should become of indi­vid­u­als who are await­ing exe­cu­tion fol­low­ing the repeal or judi­cial inval­i­da­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment leg­is­la­tion?,” ask authors James R. Acker (pic­tured, left) and Brian W. Stull (pic­tured, right) in a recent arti­cle pub­lished in the Akron Law Review. If his­to­ry is a guide, they say, the pris­on­ers’ lives…