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Nationwide Drug Shortage Doesn’t Impact Texas Executions… Yet

There’s been a great deal of news lately regarding a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, the anesthetic used in lethal injections. Hospira Inc. is the only U.S. company that manufacturers […]

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Scheduled Execution: Derrick Jackson

Derrick Jackson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, July 20 at 6:00pm. The execution will be the 15th Texas execution of 31 nationwide.

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Urge Clemency for David Lee Powell

David Lee Powell, who was sentenced to death in 1978 for the murder of Austin Police Officer Ralph Ablanedo, is scheduled for execution on June 15, 2010. He has accepted […]

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CNN Profile of Catholic Death Row Ministry founder

In the February 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic, Frisco, Texas resident Michael Denson, founder of the Catholic Death Row Ministry was profiled. As a child, Denson’s mother wrote to prison […]

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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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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 […]