May 31, 2007
Alabama death row prisoners represented by Bryan Stevenson are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the issue of whether condemned inmates have a right to counsel for postconviction appeals. Alabama is the only state that denies postconviction legal aid to prisoners facing execution. Alabama newspapers, the New York Times and a coaliton of state and federal judges and bar leaders have all written in support of the petition filed in Barbour v. Haley. Click to read any of the editorials below:
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