On October 24, 2007, at a hearing before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Brian Stull of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project will argue on behalf of Max Soffar, an innocent man on Texas's death row. The CPP, with the Texas Innocence Network (TIN), will try to overturn Soffar's conviction in the capital murder case of four v
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently completed an extensive four-part series called "A Matter of Life or Death," about the death penalty in Georgia. The series discussed arbitrariness in the use of the death penalty, the fact that race and geography often determines who receives a death sentence, and whether or not the sys
