Archive for September, 2011

Sep22

We’re Ready to End the Death Penalty and We Need Your Help

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Last night’s execution of an innocent man, Troy Anthony Davis, by the State of Georgia demands that we renew efforts to end the death penalty. “Troy’s execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States,” wrote Ben Jealous of the NAACP last night. “The world [...]

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Sep08

EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.

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In August, the EJS legal team traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, where we met with death penalty litigators from around the country to identify strategies to overturn McCleskey v. Kemp, a 1987 Supreme Court case in which a habeas petitioner presented statistical evidence showing grave disparities in the imposition [...]

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Sep06

Allison Elgart Joins EJS as Supervising Attorney

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The Equal Justice Society welcomes Allison Elgart as our new Supervising Attorney, effective October 4. Allison was formerly an associate in the San Francisco office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP where she primarily focused on consumer protection and employment class action litigation. “We are delighted that Allison is joining us here at EJS,” [...]

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