Our Goals in 2008

Texas continues to lead the nation in using the death penalty, carrying out 62 percent of executions nationwide in 2007. Overall, 86 percent of all U.S. executions in 2007 were in the South. It is time to turn the page on this legacy of the Old South. The death penalty system in Texas is broken [...]

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by admin
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Texas DAs to Blame for High Execution Rate

The New York Times has an article today “Executions Decline Elsewhere, but Texas Holds Steady“. Some of the information in the article explains why the district attorney elections in 2008 in Travis County and Harris County, as well as other Texas counties, are so important in the effort to slow down or stop executions in [...]

Posted on December 25th, 2007 by admin
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Next Travis County DA Should Impose A Moratorium on Death Penalty Prosecutions

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is retiring. He was first elected in 1976. The next DA in Travis County should reflect how the Travis County community’s feelings on the death penalty have evolved since 1976 and pledge that the death penalty is off the table within Travis County. Last October when Paul Burka first [...]

Posted on December 25th, 2007 by admin
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