Press Releases

Wyoming Legislators Will Not Consider Death Penalty Repeal Bill This Year

Today, with a 37-23 vote, the Wyoming House of Representatives narrowly missed meeting the 2/3 super majority of votes required to consider House Bill 166, legislation that would repeal the death penalty, during the legislature’s budget session.
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment

Wyoming’s Death Penalty Laws are Unconstitutional and Must Be Repealed

The ACLU of Wyoming believes that the state’s death penalty laws violate both the United States and Wyoming Constitutions and is asking the state’s legislators to repeal the capital punishment in the state during the legislature’s budget session.
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment

Bill to Repeal Death Penalty in Wyoming Filed Today

The death penalty’s history of deep injustices, skyrocketing costs and entrenched discrimination defies party lines in the Equality State.
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment

Kimberly Craven Joins ACLU as Legal Director for Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota

Craven will lead and expand the organization's legal program across and provide strategic leadership on both litigation and non-litigation legal advocacy in the ACLU’s priority areas.

ACLU of Wyoming Asking Five State Elected Officials to Weigh in on Uinta County’s Plan to Build an Immigration Prison

As Uinta County Commissioners move forward with their plan to contract with a private company to construct and operate an immigration detention facility in the county, the ACLU of Wyoming is asking the state’s five elected officials to weigh in on the legality of the plan.

Real Talk About the Death Penalty: ACLU to Host Educational Forums

The ACLU of Wyoming is hosting two educational forums to explain the death penalty is actually being used in the state.
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment

Community Forum to Focus on Immigrants’ Rights in Wyoming

ACLU of Wyoming Organizer Antonio Serrano will discuss the work happening in Wyoming that is helping to fight for immigrant justice.

ACLU of Wyoming, Wyoming GSA Network to host Know Your Rights for Students Workshop

While the Constitution protects the rights of students at school, many school officials are unaware of students’ legal protections or simply ignore them. That's why it's important for students to know their rights so they can protect them.

Fiesta de Familias event to bring together opponents of proposed immigration prison in Wyoming

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moves ahead with its plans to build a new 500-bed privately-owned detention center in the region, Wyomingites who don’t want to see an immigration prison in the state are taking action.