Author: tcadp

Nov. 6 TEXAS: 3 held in slaying outside VFW Hall Police arrested 3 suspects Thursday morning in connection with the Octoberslaying of a 33-year-old man who was trying to fend […]

Nov. 5 TEXAS: URGENT ACTION APPEAL – From Amnesty International USA 5 November 2008—-UA 307/08 – Death penalty USA (Texas) Robert Jean Hudson (m), black, aged 45 Robert Hudson is […]

Nov. 5 TEXAS—-impending execution Parolee set for execution for 1993 FW slaying Convicted burglar Elkie Lee Taylor already was a known troublemaker in hisneighborhood near downtown Fort Worth when he […]

An Urgent Action for Robert Hudson, scheduled for execution in Texas onNov. 20, is available now at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa30708.pdf And an online version of the action is available at: http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=11427

Nov. 4 TEXAS: Reflections on a Gathering of 20 Death Row Exonerees It was 4:00 a.m. last Friday when I set out for Conroe, Texas, home ofboth the Texas state […]

Nov. 1 TEXAS: Death row inmate tied to 2 more homicides A man scheduled to be executed in January for the 2000 robbery andstrangulation of his stepmother has been tied […]

Oct. 31 TEXAS: Death penalty opponents say system is broken, executions must end As execution numbers rise in Texas, so does the determination to end allexecutions. Families of death row […]

Oct. 30 TEXAS—-execution Homeless man executed for killing helpful woman Proclaiming his innocence, condemned prisoner Gregory Wright was executedThursday evening for the fatal stabbing and robbery of a Dallas-area womanwho […]