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Emergency Appeal for Cathy Henderson

Cathy Henderson is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 13 June. She was sentenced to death in May 1995 for the murder of a three-and-a-half-month-old baby, Brandon Baugh, in […]

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Update on Anthony Graves

Article from Austin ChronicleBY JORDAN SMITH Unbelievably, a retrial of the capital murder case against Anthony Graves is set to go forward this summer, even though a special prosecutor admitted […]

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Jessica’s Law Receives 30 to 1 vote to pass out of Senate!

Senator Ellis was the one dissenting vote on Jessica’s Law in the Texas Senate, a bill that gives 25 years for the first offense of molestation of a child, and […]

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National Crime Victims’ Week

FROM THE JOURNEY OF HOPE, MVFHR AND MVFR April 22 – 28, 2007 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The theme for this year is “Victims’ Rights: Every Victim, Every […]

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Scott Panetti case to be heard at U.S. Supreme Court

Today, April 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case Panetti vs. Quarterman. This case concerns Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti, who has a […]

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Dallas Morning News calls for Abolition of the Death Penalty!

The editorial board of the Dallas Morning News called for abolition of the death penalty in Texas TODAY! Only the scond paper in Texas to do so, after the Austin […]

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Mentally Retarded Man to be Executed in Texas!

On April 11, James Clark is scheduled to be executed for a rape and murder committed in June 1993. This would be the 12th execution in Texas this year; there […]

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Does Texas REALLY Care for its children?

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst confuses me. This morning coming into Austin, KUT reported the Lt Gov was fighting the extension of the application for the CHIP program (Children’s Health Insurance) […]