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Cassandra Stubbs

Director Capital Punishment Project

ACLU

Bio

Cassy Stubbs is the director of the 桃子视频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 桃子视频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

Jan 16, 2026

Executions Spiked in 2025, but the Death Penalty Is Still Losing Ground

Executions Spiked in 2025, but the Death Penalty Is Still Losing Ground

Dec 20, 2024

Can Commuting the Row Be Biden's Real Legacy? Herman Lindsey and Cassy Stubbs Discuss With W. Kamau Bell

Can Commuting the Row Be Biden's Real Legacy? Herman Lindsey and Cassy Stubbs Discuss With W. Kamau Bell

Feb 22, 2024

Challenging the Racist Death Penalty in North Carolina

Challenging the Racist Death Penalty in North Carolina

Feb 2, 2021

Atrocities of the Federal Death Penalty

Atrocities of the Federal Death Penalty

Aug 26, 2020

Not Even a Global Pandemic Could Stop the Federal Government from Pursuing a String of Back-to-Back Executions This Summer

Not Even a Global Pandemic Could Stop the Federal Government from Pursuing a String of Back-to-Back Executions This Summer

Dec 13, 2019

The Death Penalty in 2019: A Year of Incredible Progress, Marred by Unconscionable Executions

The Death Penalty in 2019: A Year of Incredible Progress, Marred by Unconscionable Executions

Mar 18, 2019

Can Prosecutors Dismiss Jurors for Agreeing With the O.J. Simpson Verdict?

Can Prosecutors Dismiss Jurors for Agreeing With the O.J. Simpson Verdict?

Mar 13, 2019

California Halts the Use of the Death Penalty

California Halts the Use of the Death Penalty

Oct 11, 2018

Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Death Penalty

Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Death Penalty

Nov 14, 2017

At Guant谩namo, a Death Penalty Case Without a Death Penalty Lawyer

At Guant谩namo, a Death Penalty Case Without a Death Penalty Lawyer