Bio
Brian Stull is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. He has served as trial and appellate counsel in capital cases in North Carolina and Texas. Before joining the ACLU, Stull worked for five years at the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD) in New York City, where he represented indigent criminal defendants convicted of serious felonies on direct appeal and in post-conviction and federal habeas corpus proceedings. Stull holds a B.A. and a M.S.W. from the University of Michigan and graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law.
Featured work
Apr 14, 2023
We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors from Death Penalty Cases
![An empty jury box with leather and wood chairs.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/04/jury-box-b-400x400.jpg)
Aug 30, 2022
The Sinister and Racist Practice Infecting Death Penalty Juries
![Am antique jury’s box.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/08/DQ_Blog-400x400.jpg)
Apr 27, 2021
The Unhappy 25th Birthday of Two Tough-on-Crime Era Laws That Have Deadly Consequences for Incarcerated People
![People in prison housed in a room with three-tiered bunk beds.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/04/25-Years-Header-Image-400x400.jpg)
Feb 26, 2019
Texas Is Planning an Execution Based on Fraudulent Testimony
![Billie Wayne Coble](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-billiewaynecoble-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Aug 14, 2018
'Do We Deserve to Kill?' The Answer Is 'No' After Nebraska's Latest Execution
![Execution Bed](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-executionchair-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Nov 17, 2017
Too Old and Too Sick to Execute? No Such Thing in Ohio.
![Weathered Hands](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-weatheredhands-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Apr 3, 2017
The Supreme Court Decision to Protect People With an Intellectual Disability From Execution Was Long Overdue
![Lethal Injection Chair](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-lethalinjectionchair-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Mar 20, 2017
Arkansas’s Reckless Plan to Execute 8 Men in 10 Days Could End in State-Sanctioned Torture Before Death
![Execution Chamber](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-capitalpunishment-1160x768_0-400x400.jpg)
Feb 9, 2016
Brendan Dassey, Max Soffar, and the False Confession Playbook
![Max Soffar](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-blog_soffar-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Nov 2, 2015
If Nothing Happens Between Now and Tonight, Missouri Will Execute an Intellectually Disabled Man
![Electric chair](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-deathpenalty-1160x768-400x400.jpg)