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Death Penalty Free Austin Campaign

By "Persian Cowboy"

Meeting to launch the Death Penalty Free Austin Campaign!Wednesday, June 30 at 7PMCarver Library Meeting Room 1, Rosewood and AngelinaAll groups and individuals opposed to the death penalty: COME TO THIS MEETING!Following a series of scandals relating the use of capital punishment in Texas, local activists from many organizations will be pressing a campaign to end the pursuit of death sentences in Travis County.From the Cameron Todd Willingham case, to shoddy forensic science investigations to racial bias in death penalty cases, the death penalty is dead wrong. All of the problems in the use of the death penalty can be found in local cases, like those of Rodney Reed and Louis Castro Perez and the recent cruel and unusual execution of David Lee Powell...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).