Our Work

For 50 years, the Southern Center for Human Rights has stood at the forefront of capital defense in the Deep South. We have argued and won five death penalty cases before the United States Supreme Court—four of them challenging entrenched racial discrimination in capital trials.

SCHR confronts mass incarceration by challenging the policies that propel it forward. Our goal is the restoration of families and communities that have been deliberately torn apart by a system designed to punish, not protect.