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Anti-Death Penalty Activist Wins Primary

**Note: TCADP does not endorse political parties or candidates, but we do applaud politicians and political hopefuls who take the right stand on the death penalty.** This extremely exciting news […]

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Death Penalty for Abortion Providers?

**Blogger’s Note: TCADP has no and will not take an official position on the question of women’s reproductive rights. However, we oppose any and all attempts to extend the populations […]

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Re: Justice without Question

The following is a letter to the editor of The Dallas Morning News regarding the July 9 editorial “Justice without Doubt” I posted aerlier today. The author, Charles Terrell, is […]

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Justice without Doubt

On July 9 this excellent editorial ran in the Dallas Morning News (posted in its entirety): Justice Without Doubt: Questionable death cases call for review The unrelenting hunt for error […]

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Texas Will Miss Carol Byars

Texan and murder victim family member Carol Byars passed this week. She was a leader in the victims’ movement to abolish the death penalty and a powerful voice for the […]

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"Now" Takes Another Look at the Death Penalty

I found this at Ohio Death Penalty Information: On Friday, July 14, the PBS show “Now” will air a segment about physicians and nurses who participate in executions. Dr. Jonathan […]

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Murder Victims’ Family Members and Derrick Sean O’Brien

Derrick Sean O’Brien is scehduled to die tomorrow for his role in the brutal 1993 gang rape and murder of two teenage girls: Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16. […]

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Confidential Informants and the Death Penalty

One of my favorite blogs and my favorite dealing with Texas issues has posted about the growing dependence of law enforcement on confidential (often paid–either in cash or in reduced […]