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Mental Illness and the Death Penalty Postcard Campaign Launched!

TCADP is delighted to announce the release of its new Mental Illness and the Death Penalty (MIDP) Organizing Packet, which will provide you and/or your group with all of the […]

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Lethal injections questioned – Top Stories

Lethal injections questioned – Top Stories Report includes most recent devleopment son the lethal injections questions and our launch of the Music for Life Tour.

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Sara Hickman kicks off Music for Life Tour

Sara Hickman, Austin musician, singer, songwriter, has agreed to perform a 12-month concert tour of Texas cities to increase the dialogue on the problems concerning the death penalty in Texas. […]

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TCADP Hails Decision to Grant Clemency to Kenneth Foster

(Austin, Texas) – This morning, after receiving a rare recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant clemency to Kenneth Foster, Governor Rick Perry commuted Foster’s sentence […]

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3 Executions this Week!

VIGIL INFORMATION 8/28: Daroyce Mosley 8/29: John Amador8/30: Kenneth Foster Daroyce Mosley:http://www.daroycemosley.com/daroyce.pdfFull Texas Monthly article from 1996 From Texas Monthly…Nineteen-year-old Goat Hill resident DaRovce Mosley, a former honors student at […]

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More on the Panetti Decision

StandDown Texas has posted all of the national and state-based media coverage of the Panetti decision. Go to http://standdown.typepad.com/.So what happens now to Scott Panetti? Well, the justices found that […]

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Scott Panetti!

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of severely mentally ill death row inmate Scott Panetti and has blocked his execution. The court questioned the […]

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Bexar County DA says Cantu was not Innocent

Susan Reed, Bexar County DA has concluded that Ruben Cantu was justifiably executed in 1993. DA Reed refused to have an independent investigation of this case after questions about his […]