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Justice For Rodney Reed! Protest - Today

Posted on December 22, 2008
span style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"span style="font-size: 12px;"Dear Friends,br /br /For anyone following the case of Rodney Reed, I?m sure you were as outraged as we were by the CCA?s complete disregard for any of the important evidence provided by the defense that could prove Rodney?s innocence in a new trial...

"A Great Injustice" in the Rodney Reed Case

Posted on December 19, 2008
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Another Victory at the U.N.

Posted on December 19, 2008
Community of Sant'Egidio ANOTHER VICTORY AT THE U.N. FOR THE SECOND TIME, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS APPROVEDA RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUMOF EXECUTIONS AND THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE WORLD The Community of Sant'Egidio gladly welcomes the big step taken by the United Nations when, just a short while ago, the General Assembly approved a new resolution calling for a Universal Moratorium of capital punishment...

Rodney Reed's request for new trial denied

Posted on December 17, 2008
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2008: Harris sends nobody to death row

Posted on December 15, 2008
Thats the title of Rick Casey's column for the Houston Chronicle.First I learn that Houston's air is getting cleaner. Now I learn that we haven't sentenced a single scumbag murderer to death this entire year. This is not the city I signed up for. In 1999, Houston displaced Los Angeles as the smoggiest city in the nation...

Death penalty system fatally flawed

Posted on December 15, 2008
Thats the title of Sam Milsap's column in the San Antonio Express-News.According to a report released last week by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty ? Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2008: The Year in Review ? this year Texas juries condemned the fewest number of people to death in more than 30 years...

Ramsey Clark awarded UN Human Rights prize

Posted on December 14, 2008
Dear Friends,This is wonderful news about Ramsey Clark. This past summer when I contacted Ramsey about the Jeff Wood case, he did not hesitate when asked to write a letter to the governor and the Board of Pardons.Ramsey was the attorney for my friend Carlos Santana who was executed by the state of Texas in March of 1993...

Map of Executions in the U.S in 2008

Posted on December 11, 2008
Texas performed 18 of 37 executions carried out in the U.S. in 2008. That was 48.6 percent. Ohio, which carried out two executions, was the only state outside the South to impose the death penalty in 2008. 95 percent of all 2008 executions were in the South...

Death penalty abolished in Togo

Posted on December 11, 2008
The Togolese government has announced the abolition of death penalty, the state radio reported. The decision to scrap death penalty in the West African nation was announced at the end of the cabinet meeting held here Wednesday evening. "The choice by the country to set up a healthy judiciary limiting miscarriages of justice, correcting, educating and ensuring human rights is no longer consistent with the criminal law that still implements death penalty," a statement read on the state-owned radio said...

A Terrible Loss

Posted on December 09, 2008
Dear Friends, There was a murder in Houston on Saturday night. It was the sister of death row activist and a founder of PURE, Harvery Tee Earvin. Also murdered was his sister's god child. His family will bury Savannah, as she was called, on this Saturday at 11am...

CONGRATULATIONS to Andrea Riccardi of Sant'Egidio

Posted on December 08, 2008
All of us know how much San'Egidio has done for the abolition movement and so I was really happy to read that Andrea Riccardi will receive this award.The Karlspreis (or Charlemagne Award in English) is one of the most prestigious European Awards. The sponsors of the award promote that the Charlemagne Prize is not only an expression of gratitude for lasting services for the unity of Europe, but also an encouragement and an expression of hopes and expectations directed towards the future...

Photo of Greg Wright 15 Minutes After Execution

Posted on December 03, 2008
This photo of Greg Wright 15 minutes after his execution on Oct 30, 2008 in Texas is from Bente Hjortshoj. She is standing on the left. She wrote this caption to the photo:"The first time we touched you Greg...you were still warm...you looked at peace...

Holiday Card Signing for Death Row on Tuesday!

Posted on December 01, 2008
HOLIDAY CARD SIGNING FOR TEXAS DEATH ROW Tuesday, December 2, from 6-10:00 PM at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak at Alabama in Houston's Third Ward Join in some holiday cheer and help sign cards for the 370 women and men on death row in Texas, as well as the juveniles taken off death row in 2005 and a few others like Thomas Miller-El, Martin Draughon, and Kenneth Foster...

DA Craig Watkins selected as Governing Magazine's Public Official of the Year

Posted on December 01, 2008
Most district attorneys make a name for themselves by winning convictions. Craig Watkins has done it by reversing convictions that never should have happened. Every year since 1994, Governing has honored individual state and local government officials for outstanding accomplishment by naming them Public Officials of the Year...

State Rep Harold Dutton files Law of Parties bill

Posted on November 28, 2008
State Rep Harold Dutton of Houston has filed a bill to end the death penalty as a sentencing option for anyone convicted under the Law of Parties. By: Dutton H.B. No. 304 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the extent of a defendant's criminal responsibility for the conduct of a co-conspirator in certain felony cases...

The UN just voted in favor of the resolution for a death penalty moratorium

Posted on November 20, 2008
The resolution passed the UN vote a little while ago:105 in favor, 48 against and 31 abstentions.Last year it passed with 99 in favor, 52 against and 33 abstentions.

Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales indicted in S. Texas

Posted on November 19, 2008
Thats title of Houston Chronicle's article on indictment of Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and state Senator. Lucio on charges related to alleged abuse of prisoners in federal detention centers.McALLEN ? A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers...

Star-Telegram interview with Dallas DA Craig Watkins

Posted on November 19, 2008
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins created a conviction integrity unit. He invited law students into his office to help probe for wrongful convictions. And there is at least one other way Watkins differs from most other prosecutors: He is personally opposed to capital punishment...

11th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted oral arguments to Troy Davis

Posted on November 19, 2008
Julien Ball of CEDP has received words from Martina Correia, Troy Davis's sister, that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted oral arguments in Troy Davis's case and will hear them on December 9! This hearing will be open to the public. More to come...

HURRICANE SEASON: the hidden messages in water

Posted on November 18, 2008
HURRICANE SEASON: the hidden messages in water is a two woman show about unnatural disaster and a great shift in universal consciousness. Read more about this inspiring show at the show's website: www.hurricaneseasontour.com.Texas Moratorium Network will participate in a dialogue at the Austin show...

Causewiring the Anti-Death Penalty Movement

Posted on November 17, 2008
Anyone interested in using online activism against the death penalty should take a look at the new book, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World. It is about using online activism to change the world. The author, Tom Watson, also has a blog that is worth a look...

All the people scheduled for execution in Texas are either African-American (8) or Hispanic (5).

Posted on November 17, 2008
Two weeks after the first African-American was elected President of the United States, two African-Americans are set to be executed in Texas this week. Last week, Texas also executed two African-Americans. The week before that Texas also executed an African-American...

Polunsky visitation with Jeff

Posted on November 17, 2008
Terri Been is sister of death-row inmate Jeff Wood. In this letter she talks about her experience with visiting her brother on death-row and the situation during and after this month's lock-down.Yesterday?s visit to my brother was bitter sweet to say the least...

From Kenneth Foster to Jeff Wood -- The struggle continues...

Posted on November 13, 2008

Panel recommends abolishing death penalty in Md.

Posted on November 12, 2008
A state commission has voted to recommend abolishing the death penalty in Maryland.The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7 to make the recommendation in its report to lawmakers and the governor next month.The vote came after the failure of a proposed amendment to keep the death penalty for people who kill correctional officers or police officers...

The lockdown ends on Wednesday

Posted on November 11, 2008
Gloria Rubac of the The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement informs us by email that visits will resume on Wednesday at Polunsky.From Gloria:The lockdown ends on Wednesday.Just called again to clarify and was told that visits start Wednesday. Of course, on Wednesday it is press day so visits are only in the morning, from 8-12 noon...

End the Polunsky Unit Lockdown Now!

Posted on November 09, 2008
The Abolition Movement spent the majority of our meeting on November 5 discussing the current situation at the Polunsky Unit. The consensus was that anything and everything should be tried until this lockdown ends, visits are restored, shakedowns are ended and life returns to what TDCJ considers normal...

Cynthia McKinney: Witness to an Execution

Posted on November 02, 2008
Last Thursday, while Ralph Nader, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin were debating in Cleveland, Cynthia McKinney was acting as witness to the execution of another innocent man in Texas - Gregory Wright, who was killed by Texas authorities at Huntsville Unit, Texas State Penitentiary, Jacksonville, Texas...

Complete video of Witness to Innocence's press conference at the Texas Capitol

Posted on November 01, 2008
On Friday, 24 exonerated ex-death row prisoners from across the country held a news conference to call for the establishment of a statewide commission on wrongful convictions while a moratorium is imposed on executions in Texas. They spent a combined total of nearly 200 years on death row for crimes they did not commit...

Help Us Win a Membership Contest so that We Can Help Some Families of People on Death Row

Posted on November 01, 2008
Click here to join the "Abolish the Death Penalty Project" on Amazee.com and help us win the membership contest. We could win up to $5,000 to use against the death penalty. The project with the most members by Jan 22 wins. We plan to use one-half of any prize money we win to help needy families of people on death row travel to visit their loved ones on death row...

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