Capital Punishment
 
ISSUES

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Wins Victory in Texas Death Penalty Case

Legal Defense Fund Persuades Federal Court to Overturn Death Sentence in Alabama Case

Legal Defense Fund on Today's Victory in Supreme Court's Rejection of Attempts to Expand the Death Penalty

LDF Wins Life Sentence for Mentally Retarded Man on Pennsylvania’s Death Row

PRESS RELEASES

Civil Rights Organizations File Brief in Death Penalty Case Before Supreme Court

Legal Expert to Discuss Case Determining the Showing of Innocence a Death Row Inmate Must Make before a Federal Court May Hear His Defaulted Constitutional Claim or Bar His Execution

COMMENTARY

Decency Demanded 'No' Vote on Death

From Lynch Mob to Death Penalty: A Continuum of American Racial Injustice

PUBLICATIONS

Death Row USA - Winter 2008 (244 KB)

Death Row USA - (2000 - 2008)

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Opinion Granting Habeas Relief (3.88 MB)

Herbert Williams 11th Circuit Opinion (184 KB)

House v. Bell Petitioner's Reply Brief (213 KB)

House v. Bell Innocence Project Amicus Brief (1.52 MB)

House v. Bell ABA Amicus Brief (452 KB)

House v. Bell States' Amicus Brief (1.11 MB)

House v. Bell Petitioner's Merits Brief (275 KB)

House v. Bell Petitioner's Cert Reply (1.88 MB)

House v. Bell Prosecutor's Amicus Brief (213 KB)

House v. Bell State's Brief in Opposition (4.88 MB)

House v. Bell Respondent's Merits Brief (279 KB)