Alabama Death Penalty & Criminal Justice Resources
Compiled by Christine Freeman and presented at her AUUF service on August 2, 2026
Organizations
-Alabama Post Conviction Relief Project http://www.alapcrp.org)
-ACLU of Alabama – Death & Capital Report https://www.alabamasmartjustice.org/reports/death- capital-report)
-Advancing Real Change https://advancechange.org
-Alabama Appleseed – Center for Law & Justice https://alabamaappleseed.org
-Alabama Arise https://alarise.org)
-American Civil Liberties Union – Capital Punishment https://www.aclu.org/issues/capital-punishment
-Death Penalty Action https://deathpenaltyaction.org
-Death Penalty Information Center https://deathpenaltyinfo.org
-Alabama Department of Corrections https://doc.alabama.gov
-Equal Justice Initiative – Death Penalty https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty
-Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.phadp.org
-Represent Justice http://www.representjustice.org (related to *The Alabama Solution*)
-Southern Center for Human Rights – Death Penalty https://www.schr.org/death-penalty
-U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty https://enddeathpenalty.org
-Coalition to End Judge Override https://wethejury-al.com
Individual Cases & Clemency Campaigns
-Jeffery Lee Clemency website: http://www.lifeforjefferylee.com
-Rocky Myers: “On the Advice of Klonsel: A Look Under the Hood of an Alabama Injustice” http://www.treadbylee.com/p/klonsel
-Toforest Johnson:[Justice For Toforest Johnson http://www.toforestjohnson.com
Profiles & Articles
-Patsy Morris — Time.com: “Law: The Queen of Death Row” https://time.com/archive/6846345/law-the-queen-of-death-row
-Scharlette Holdman — Time.com: “Death Row Angel” https://time.com/4858368/death-row-angel-scharlette-holdman and “Death Penalty: Remembering Scharlette Holdman, ‘Angel of Death Row'”
Books & Law Journal Articles
-Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row, Vanderbilt University Press (2023)
-Ruth Friedman, “Statistics and Death: The Conspicuous Role of Race Bias in the Administration of the Death Penalty,” 11 La Raza Law Journal 75, 77–81 (Spring 1999)
-Steve Bright, “Counsel for the Poor: The Death Penalty Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer,” 103 Yale Law Journal 1835 (1994)