post-conviction

Buried Alive: The Four-Year Deadline That Killed Habeas Corpus in Georgia

Georgia exempted death row from its four-year habeas deadline — the one group it gives lawyers and unlimited time. Everyone else gets four years, no attorney, and rationed law-library access to teach themselves a profession that takes seven years to learn. The deadline doesn’t reject wrongful-conviction claims. It buries them unheard.

Blackstone Is Dead: Georgia Abandoned American Justice

Crumbling marble courthouse pillar inscribed with JUSTICE, with broken golden scales of justice lying at its base and prison bars in the background, bathed in warm light

Georgia’s Chief Justice admits the post-conviction system is “broken.” But the IAC trap is just one lock on the door. Combined with the unconstitutional 4-year habeas deadline, no right to counsel, and restricted legal access, Georgia has built a machine that keeps thousands — including an estimated 2,600 to 5,275 innocent people — locked inside its deadliest prisons.

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