In May the Constitution Project filed an amicus brief in the case of Barbour v. Allen, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a constitutional challenge to Alabama’s failure to provide counsel to indigent death row inmates in state post-conviction proceedings. We are sorry to report that on Tuesday the Court declined to hear Mr. Barbour’s appeal. There are more than a dozen death row inmates in Alabama who do not have lawyers for these critically important state post-conviction proceedings. According to our brief, “Alabama is a unique outlier, in that it provides no legal assistance of any kind to capital defendants in preparing state post-conviction petitions.”