Summer 2019 edition of Project Press, featuring a story about the Project's upcoming annual Volunteer Awards and Recognition Dinner. Also includes Supreme Court & death penalty news, notable case outcomes, and success stories.

Spring 2019 edition of Project Press, featuring Supreme Court & death penalty news, notable case outcomes, and events & training.

Year-end report and newsletter of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project containing a review of Supreme Court death penalty cases, death penalty news, Project updates, and more!

Fall 2018 edition of Project Press, featuring a story about the Project's 2018 annual Volunteer Awards and Recognition Dinner. Also includes Supreme Court & death penalty news, notable case outcomes, and events & training opportunities.

Spring 2018 edition of Project Press, featuring a story about the Project's new publication "Representing Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Clemency: A Guide for Practitioners". Also includes Supreme Court & death penalty news, notable case outcomes, and events & training.

2017 Year-End Report of the Death Penalty Representation Project featuring a roundup of death penalty and Supreme Court news from the past 12 months and updates on Project initiatives.

Spring 2017 edition of Project Press featuring an update on Arkansas's unprecedented attempt to execute eight prisoners in ten days. Also includes volunteer success stories, Supreme Court news, death penalty news, and Project events & training.

2016 Year-End Report and Newsletter with a special section commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Project. Also includes volunteer success stories, 2016 year-in-review, and a Supreme Court update.

Spring 2016 edition of Project Press featuring a story about the Supreme Court's decision invalidating Florida's death penalty scheme. Also includes other death penalty news, volunteer success stories, and Project updates.

Winter 2015 edition of Project Press featuring a volunteer success story in the case of Manuel Velez. Also includes other death penalty news, Supreme Court news, and Project updates.

Summer 2015 edition of Project Press featuring a story about Project pro bono awards. Also includes other death penalty news, volunteer success stories, and Supreme Court news.

Summer 2014 Project Press newsletter

On February 26, 2014, Paul A. Howell became one of the first Florida death row prisoners to be involuntarily executed without any federal court review of his constitutional claims. Approximately one month earlier, Mr. Howell’s lawyers filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse a lower court’s ruling that barred federal court review of the constitutionality of Mr. Howell’s state conviction and sentence.

On October 21, 2013, the Project co-hosted a symposium with Hofstra University Law School commemorating the tenth anniversary of the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases.

A new Florida law signed into effect by Governor Rick Scott in June 2013 seeks to accelerate the pace of the state’s death penalty process. Many worry that the law will exacerbate existing problems in a system already plagued by errors and a lack of funding and resources.

On March 15, 2013, Maryland's legislature passed a bill to repeal the death penalty. After a 27-20 vote for repeal in the Senate, the House of Delegates approved the bill by a vote of 82 to 56. The repeal bill now heads to Governor Martin O'Malley, who introduced the legislation in January and has pledged to sign it into law.

In its 2011-2012 Term, the United States Supreme Court decided four significant criminal cases concerning the right to effective assistance of counsel. All of these decisions were decided in favor of petitioners challenging their convictions and sentences.

The United States Supreme Court issued its first major death penalty decision of the 2011-2012 term on January 18, 2012, in Maples v. Thomas. The Court found that Alabama death row prisoner Cory Maples was abandoned by his lawyers, and therefore his failure to file an appeal within the allotted time frame could be excused.

On March 20, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision in Martinez v. Ryan concerning the conduct of counsel in state post-conviction proceedings. Although the Court declined to reconsider its prior holding that there is no constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel in state post-conviction proceedings, the Court announced an equitable rule that has the potential to impact death row prisoners across the country.

For 25 years, the Project has existed to provide death-sentenced prisoners with a voice. Our work encompasses a range of issues to ensure that death row prisoners receive the competent and effective legal representation that is essential to fairness and justice.

On March 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn signed SB 3539, abolishing capital punishment in Illinois and commuting the sentences of all 15 people on death row to life in prison. The abolition bill reallocates funds used for the implementation of the death penalty toward services for victims’ families and law enforcement. Illinois now joins New Jersey and New Mexico, both of which abolished the death penalty during the last three years.

On September 22, 2010, the Death Penalty Representation Project held its 24th Anniversary and Volunteer Recognition Event in Houston, Texas to honor the outstanding pro bono contributions of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Reed Smith LLP.

On Thursday March 25, 2010 the Project will hold a special event in Washington, DC at the law offices of Sidley Austin LLP, 1501 K Street NW, from 4:00 until 6:00 PM.

On March 25, 2010, the Project held a special event in Washington, DC at Sidley Austin LLP to discuss opportunities for volunteer attorneys to represent prisoners on Death Row without counsel.

On September 24, 2009, the Death Penalty Representation Project held its 23rd Anniversary and Volunteer Recognition Event in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Woodruff Arts Center. Two volunteer law firms, Goodwin Procter LLP and Dykema Gossett PLLC, received the Project’s Exceptional Service Award given for extraordinary legal service to the men and women on Death Row

On July 16, 2009, the Project hosted a special two-part event in Boston at the John J. Moakley Federal Courthouse. Host US District Judge Nancy Gertner and Kathy Weinman, President of the Boston Bar Association, made opening remarks.

On January 10, 2009 at the ABA Section of Litigation Winter Leadership Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Project hosted “The ABA’s Role in Changing Capital Representation.”

This year, the Project celebrated the work of its volunteers at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in New York City. Guest speakers included Tony Amsterdam of New York University School of Law and District Attorney Craig Watkins of Dallas County, Texas.

On September 26, 2007, at the 21st Anniversary and Volunteer Recognition Event, the Death Penalty Representation Project honored WilmerHale and Mayer Brown LLP for their exceptional service to prisoners on Death Row.