Category: capital punishment

TCADP March 2022 Newsletter: Today is election day in the Texas Primary!

Post author By Hanna Seay
Post date March 2, 2022

In this edition Scheduled executions: Texas set to resume executions next week after five-month hiatus 2022 Texas Primary Election: Important District Attorney races are on the ballot in Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar […]

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Amnesty International Releases Annual Global Report on the Death Penalty

Post author By Vanessa Akins
Post date April 18, 2018

Earlier this month, Amnesty International published its annual report, Death Sentences and Executions 2017. The report details the 39% decrease in the use of the death penalty worldwide since 2015 […]

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Amnesty International Releases Annual Global Report on the Death Penalty

Post author By Vanessa Akins
Post date April 22, 2016

Earlier this month, Amnesty International released its annual global report, “Death Sentences and Executions 2015.” As the name indicates, the report covers the judicial use of the death penalty throughout […]

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Legislators hear from Anthony Graves, other witnesses in favor of death penalty repeal

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 30, 2013

Late last night, starting around 10:50 PM and lasting until after midnight, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee considered testimony on House Bill 1703, the death penalty repeal bill by […]

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Texas House Committee Considers Racial Justice Act

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 17, 2013

On April 16, 2013, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee considered House Bill 2458, which seeks to prohibit the imposition of a death sentence or execution under any judgment that […]

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Amnesty International Releases Worldwide Death Penalty Stats for 2012

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 11, 2013

Amnesty International has released its annual report on death sentences and executions for 2012. Worldwide, 682 people were executed this past year, compared to 680 in 2011. Sentencing fell from […]

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Texas Carries Out Its First Execution of the Year; Maryland Committee Passes Repeal

Post author By Kristin
Post date February 22, 2013

Last night, February 21, 2013, the State of Texas executed Carl Blue for the 1994 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Carmen Richards-Sanders, in Bryan. It was the first execution to take place […]

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TCADP Report: Use of Death Penalty Geographically Isolated, Arbitrarily Imposed in Texas

Post author By Kristin
Post date December 12, 2012

According to TCADP’s new report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2012: The Year in Review, more than half of all new death sentences were imposed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this year, while no new death sentences were imposed in Harris County for the third time in five years.