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    • Document

    Bryan Stevenson Testimony (May 2014)

    Written Statement of Bryan A. Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director Equal Justice Initiative and Professor of Clinical Law New York University School of Law Before the House Committee on the Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force Re: “Penalties”
    • Champion Article

    Reviews In Review: Death Penalty; Prosecutorial Discretion; Felony Murder

    Death Penalty; Prosecutorial Discretion; Felony Murder
    • Champion Article

    Killing Fewer, and Killing Carefully: Death Penalty Defense in China on the Eve of Beijing Olympics

    Killing Fewer, and Killing Carefully: Death Penalty Defense in China on the Eve of the Beijing Olympics
    • Media

    Preparing Your Client & Yourself for the Good, Bad, and Unfathomable [Engage & Exchange Series]

    Presented by Richard S. Jaffe, Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & Knight, P.C. (Birmingham, AL) and special guest Randal Padgett, Death Row Exoneree
    • Media

    The Death Penalty and Sentencing: Applying Lessons Learned

    from Capital Sentencing and the Graham-Miller Resentencing to Sentencing in all Cases

    Keynote speakers from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
    • Brief

    Jackson v. Florida

    Brief of Amici Curiae Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Florida Public Defender Association, Advancing Real Change, Inc., Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, Craig Trocino, Esq., Death Penalty Focus, Florida Justice Institute, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Ripley Whisenhunt, PLLC, Witness to Innocence, and the 8th Amendment Project
    • Landing Page

    Death Penalty

    Does the death penalty serve as a deterrent for crime? The research says no. Leading criminologists overwhelmingly agree that there is no evidence capital punishment deters violent crimes. Not only is the death penalty unjust and inconsistent with the fallibility of our criminal legal system, but application of the death penalty is racially biased.
    • Content Page

    Death Penalty Resources

    Reports and other resources related to the death penalty.
    • Champion Article

    The NACDL Q&A: Always Fighting Something Bigger: Conversation With a Storyteller

    When he practiced law, John Grisham represented working people and those accused of crimes. How did his legal career influence his writing life? If he could change one law, which one would he change? NACDL Executive Director Lisa M. Wayne takes a few moments to get inside the head of her favorite author.
    • Content Page

    Race and the Death Penalty

    “Even under the most sophisticated death penalty statutes, race continues to play a major role in determining who shall live and who shall die. Perhaps it should not be surprising that the biases and prejudices that infect society generally would influence the determination of who is sentenced to death.” – Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (1994)

    • Champion Article

    Book Review: Until I Could Be Sure by George H. Ryan Sr. with Maurice Possley

    This month Tony Bornstein reviews Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois by George H. Ryan Sr. with Maurice Possley.
    • Champion Article

    Book Review: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by Chris Joyner

    This month Jon M. Sands reviews The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era by Chris Joyner.
    • Content Page

    Calling for a Moratorium on and Abolition of the Death Penalty

    NACDL supports all efforts to preserve human life by way of a moratorium on executions, and renews its call for abolition of the death penalty. 
    • Content Page

    Death Penalty

    NACDL supports abolition of the death penalty in Ohio and all other states that continue to utilize it. 
    • Document

    Maryland Death Penalty - Letter to Sen. Mike Miller

    NACDL letter to Senator Michael Miller in support of legislation to repeal the death penalty in Maryland.