SCHR: The Center's Recent Death Penalty Work


SCHR Senior Counsel Stephen Bright to argue Snyder v. Louisiana in U.S. Supreme Court In December, 2007

Innocent man found not guilty at trial, after 5 years on Alabama's death row

Center director presents wrongfully convicted client to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in calling for competent counsel

Georgia’s electric chair found “cruel and unusual”

Center client acquitted of murder in Phenix City, Alabama

Wallace Fugate executed by Georgia despite 2-day trial, 27-minute sentencing hearing

Death in Texas: Sleeping defense lawyers, political judges, assembly line to death chamber described in two articles