CBS “48 Hours” featured Anthony Graves on Saturday
CBS News “48 Hours” was there when Anthony Graves walked out of jail a free man in October of 2010.
Watch the show: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363660n&tag=contentMain;contentAux
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April Alert: Scheduled Executions, Spring Newsletter, News and Events
This alert includes information on the April scheduled execution, TCADP Spring Newsletter, Legislative updates, and additional events and news.
TCADP Odessa Chapter Hosts Successful Speaker’s Tour
The Odessa Chapter Against the Death Penalty is responsible for death row exoneree, Juan Melendez’s two day visit to the Permian Basin. According to Father Mark Miller, chapter leader, “He is speaking from first hand experience. I believe when people hear that, they begin to think and imagine it in a new way. So I [...]
Houston Chronicle Calls for Abolition of the Death Penalty
The editors of the Houston Chronicle began the new year with a call to end the death penalty in Texas. In an editorial that appeared on January 1, 2011, “It’s time for capital punishment to become Texas history,” the Chronicle cites awareness of the risk of wrongful conviction and the fact that jurors and prosecutors [...]
TCADP Annual Report: Only 2% of Texas Counties Imposed Death Sentences This Year
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Today, December 13, 2010, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) released its annual report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2010: The Year in Review. TCADP releases this annual report each December in conjunction with the anniversary of the resumption of executions in Texas in 1982.
According to the report, death sentences in Texas have dropped more than 70% since 2003, reaching a historic low in 2010. Juries condemned eight new individuals to death in Texas in 2010, the lowest number of new death sentences since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ revised death penalty statute in 1976.
