Bio
Anna Arceneaux is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. At the CPP, Anna represents clients in capital cases at the trial and direct appeal levels across the South. Anna also has authored amicus curiae briefs in capital cases in state courts around the country in partnership with ACLU affiliates and other advocacy organizations, written blog posts and policy papers about the death penalty, consulted with capital defense attorneys and activists, and presented at training seminars for capital defense attorneys. In addition, she has worked with the ACLU Human Rights Program in drafting submissions to international human rights bodies concerning the administration of the death penalty in the U.S.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Anna was a fellow at the Fair Trial Initiative, where she assisted in the preparation of capital trial and post-conviction cases in North Carolina. Anna graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 2006, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She also served as Chapter Editor for the Human Rights Law Review/Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. During law school, Anna interned at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center and participated in the school’s Human Rights Clinic. Anna also co-founded the Student Hurricane Network, a national network of law student volunteers created in response to the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which won Columbia’s 2006 Public Interest New Initiative of the Year Award. Anna graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2001 with a B.A. in English, Economics, and French from the University of Texas.
Featured work
Apr 4, 2019
We Are Fighting Maricopa County’s Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct
Mar 8, 2019
In America, People on Death Row Can Be Executed While the Supreme Court Reviews Their Cases
Dec 21, 2018
The Death Penalty in 2018: A Punishment on the Decline
Oct 18, 2018
In a Case that Rocked Alabama, a Man With Intellectual Disability Is Spared Death
Aug 1, 2018
Texas Decides to Execute Despite a Victim’s Son Calling for Forgiveness
May 15, 2018
New Orleans’ District Attorney Has a Warped Vision of Justice
Apr 27, 2018
Prosecutors Hid Evidence of Corey Williams’ Innocence in Pursuit of a Death Sentence
Oct 17, 2017
New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro Breaks the Law to Enforce It. We’re Holding Him Accountable.
Jun 30, 2016
Because the Prosecutors Withheld Evidence, This Man Has Spent 30 Years on Death Row
Apr 25, 2016
Texas Courts Rely on 'Of Mice and Men' to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death