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Profile of TCADP work in Rio Grande Valley

Nick Braune of the Texas Civil Rights Review wrote the article, “Organizing the Rio Grande Valley Against Capital Punishment” (February 7, 2010) which highlights the increased presence of TCADP in […]

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Urgent Action: Clemency Campaign for henry "Hank" Skinner

Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. He was sentenced to death in Gray County for the 1993 murder of […]

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Re-sentencing Results in Life

On Monday, February 1, 2010, capital murder convict Gabriel Gonzales was ordered to serve life in prison for the 1994 murder of a pawnshop owner in Bexar County. Gonzales was […]

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Texas Tribune Article on Hank Skinner-Part 2

In the second part of Brandi Grissom’s Texas Tribune article “Case Open” (January 29, 2010) a closer look at the impending execution of Hank Skinner is examined. The article focuses […]

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Texas Tribune Article on Hank Skinner

Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on February 24th, 2010, wrongly so according to the 47-year-old inmate. Brandi Grissom of the Texas Tribune wrote […]

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Media response to recommendation not to reprimand Judge Keller

Steve Hall of the StandDown Texas Project has compiled a list of news stories related to last week’s recommendation by San Antonio District Judge David Berchelmann that the state’s highest […]

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125th Inmate Exonerated; Man Acquitted after 16 years on Death Row – Chattanooga, Ten. Wednesday, Dec 5.– After spending upwards of 15 years on death row; Michael McCormick was acquitted […]

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“Texas 7” Michael Anthony Rodriguez, who was currently serving a life term for hiring a hit man to kill his wife, Theresa, 29 in order to collect her $250,000 life […]