Capital Case Litigation Initiative

This program is no longer active due to discontinued funding. If you previously attended, you can still access the materials below. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine E. Jensen, Counsel for Capital Defense Support, at kjensen@nacdl.org.

Technical Assistance

Teams that attended{1}1 Training and technical assistance under the CCLI is supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-22-GK-03019-CAPL awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance; other videos available on this page were supported by BJA grants 2018-CP-BX-K001, 2014-CP-BX-K001, and 2010-CP-BX-K002. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justices, The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office of Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. BYOC training programs have access to an online resource center including training videos, written resources, select articles from The Champion, and more.

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Changing the Shape of the Death Penalty

NACDL believes that one of the best ways to accomplish any kind of criminal legal reform is by providing resources to the people in the front lines of the criminal legal system itself. By supporting criminal defense practitioners in their everyday work, NACDL helps capital defense teams force the criminal legal system to come to terms with the facts and contexts of their clients' lives that remind us again and again of the myriad reasons why the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment.

As capital defense teams are better able to advocate on behalf of their clients, the criminal defense bar helps to reform the parts of the American criminal legal system that are most prone to injustice.

Learn more about NACDL's work on the death penalty

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