Bio
Cassy Stubbs is the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. Cassy joined the project in 2006 and since then has served as lead and associate counsel on behalf of death row inmates and defendants in trials and appeals throughout the South, including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. Her clients have included Levon "Bo" Jones, a North Carolina death row inmate who was exonerated in 2008 when the state dismissed all charges against him, and Richard C. Taylor, a severely mentally ill man who was sentenced to death after a sham trial in Tennessee, but who won a new trial on appeal and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
Cassy has also worked with numerous organizations and ACLU affiliates to file amicus briefs in capital cases in state and federal courts around the country. She has written policy papers, editorials and blog posts on a wide range of capital issues, such as the persistence of racial disparities in capital punishment and the fundamental flaws of purported claims that the death penalty deters future murders.
Featured work
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May 28, 2014
Supreme Court: An IQ Point or Two Shouldn’t Determine Who Lives and Who Dies
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May 20, 2014
Killing Russell Bucklew: Missouri's Planned Departure from Decency
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May 1, 2014
Failed Experiments: Stop All Lethal Injections Now
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Jun 21, 2013
In the Battle of Racial Bias vs. Racial Justice in North Carolina, Governor Insists on Bias
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May 6, 2013
Tomorrow, Willie Manning Is Scheduled To Die. Shouldn't Mississippi Find Out If He's Innocent First?
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Apr 5, 2013
Justice Under Attack: The North Carolina Legislature Takes Aim at the Racial Justice Act
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Dec 17, 2012
Sweeping Ruling about Racial Bias in Capital Jury Selection Shows the Need for Sweeping Reforms