Stop Executions
On April 23, 2025, the State of Texas executed Moises Sandoval Mendoza after the Supreme Court of the United States denied his application for a stay of execution and a petition for a writ of certiorari.

Mendoza was the third person put to death by the State this year. In 2005, a Collin County jury sentenced him to death for killing Rachelle Tolleson; he was 20 years old at the time of the crime. In his final words, he expressed his remorse to members of Tolleson’s family and told his loved ones he was at peace.

Attend Events
The TCADP Book Group formed in the summer of 2020. Since then, we have read and discussed 36 books together, including memoirs, novels, and non-fiction. This month, we are taking on poetry for the first time. 

Our next reading selection is The Black Rose: Collected Poems by Terence Andrus, who spent more than 10 years on death row before his tragic death in 2023. We will discuss the collection on Zoom on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 7:00 PM CT. Register here. 

Get Informed
TCADP’s latest report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2024: The Year in Review exposes the racial bias, wrongful convictions, and other systemic flaws that permeate the administration of capital punishment in Texas even as the state’s use of the death penalty remains historically low. It also provides analysis of recent trends related to death sentences and executions as well as updates on capital cases.

Read the full report.

Read the press release.