Bio
Cassy Stubbs is the director of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û 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 ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û 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
May 15, 2012
New Proof of an Old Fear: Execution of the Innocent
Apr 20, 2012
VICTORY! North Carolina Judge Finds Intentional Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty System
Nov 30, 2011
The Truth ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û the Racial Justice Act
Jun 13, 2011
New "Fast Track" Death Appeal Rules Still Fall Far Short of Goal of Providing Quality Counsel
May 20, 2011
When Junk Science is a Life-or-Death Matter
Sep 15, 2010
North Carolina's Path to Repeal
Sep 2, 2010
Race Contributes to Wrongful Convictions
Aug 10, 2010
Can the Racial Justice Act Change the Practice of Picking All-White Juries in North Carolina?