Year: 2009

Raising Our Voices for Abolition To take advantage of the Early Registration discount price of $45 please register online by February 1 or contact Sherry Coombes at 512 339-9574. Please […]

Jan. 27 TEXAS—-impending execution Execution set for Wednesday for convicted killer When a man ranting about voices telling him to kill was picked up bypolice in Del Rio and taken […]

Jan. 26 TEXAS: College student killer get reprieve A federal appeals court on Monday stopped this week's scheduled executionof a man condemned for abducting, raping and strangling a 19-year-oldsuburban Houston […]

Jan. 25 TEXAS—-impending execution El Pasoan on death row to be executed Thursday El Pasoan Ricardo Ortiz, convicted in 1999 of capital murder, is scheduledto be executed Thursday, Jan. 29, […]

Jan. 24 TEXAS—-impending execution 4 pathologists back death row inmate's innocence claim—-Swearingen,slated to die Tuesday in college student's 1998 murder, was in jail attime, 4 now say. 4 forensic pathologists […]

Jan. 23 TEXAS: Official says death row inmate attempts suicide A Texas death row inmate at the center of a monthslong investigation ofcell phone smuggling within the prison system has […]

Jan. 23 TEXAS—-death sentence overturned Man's death sentence overturned A Galveston man convicted of capital murder in the brutal killing of acollege instructor in 1993 will remain on death row […]