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State of North Carolina v. Jones - Statement of Cassandra Stubbs, Staff Attorney, ACLU Capital Punishment Project (05/05/2008)

State of North Carolina v. Jones - Statement of Attorney Ernest Conner (05/05/2008)

State of North Carolina v. Jones - Statement of Brian Stull, Staff Attorney, ACLU Capital Punishment Project (05/05/2008)

State of North Carolina v. Jones - Statement of Levon "Bo" Jones (04/14/2008)

Senate Judiciary Committee Letter to Department of Justice Regarding Patriot Reauthorization (09/24/2007)
Comments in response to the proposed regulations to implement the Patriot Act Reauthorization of 2005, which recommends changes to the special expedited habeas corpus procedures in state death penalty cases.

Who Survives on Death Row? An Individual and Contextual Analysis (08/02/2007)
An article of the American Sociological Review by David Jacobs and Zhenchao Qian of Ohio State University, Jason T. Carmichael of McGill University and Stephanie L. Kent of Cleveland State University.

Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in North Carolina 2007 (07/05/2007)
A diagnostic approach to analyzing the effects of the death penalty in North Carolina.

End the Death Penalty: Statement of John Holdridge, Director, ACLU Capital Punishment Project (06/14/2007)

Soffar v. State of Texas - Overview (05/22/2007)
Max Soffar has been on Texas's death row for more than twenty-five years for a crime he did not commit.The ACLU Capital Punishment Project and the Texas Innocence Network represent Mr. Soffar on direct appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Updates from the Capital Punishment Project (03/26/2007)