Southern Center for Human Rights

"The Southern Center for Human Rights was founded in 1976 in response to the Supreme Court's reinstatement of the death penalty that year and to the horrendous conditions in Southern prisons and jails... Today, alongside litigation, SCHR is sharpening its use of media advocacy, taking leadership in coalition building, engaging in legislative education, and learning how to organize the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the criminal justice system." -- "History." Southern Center for Human Rights. http://www.schr.org/about/history (Retrieved November 24, 2009)

Both Tony Amadeo and Jimmy Lee Horton had their convictions and sentences dramatically overturned in 1990/1991 decisions of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which cited a Middle Georgia prosecutor's routine and premeditated exclusion of minorities from jury pools. The Carzell Moore case (along with the case of Timothy Dawson) eventually led to the Georgia State Supreme Court's 2001 decision overturning the use of the electric chair as "cruel and unusual punishment."

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