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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 […]

Tags annual conference, Bexar County, Dallas County, Death Penalty, district attorney, election, execution, fair and just prosecutors, false confession, Melissa Lucio, primary election, psychology, Sister Helen Prejean, Tarrant County, Texas

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TCADP April 2021 Newsletter: As Virginia abolishes the death penalty, Texas schedules executions

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 1, 2021

In this edition of our monthly newsletter, you’ll find information on the next execution scheduled by the State of Texas, as well as a new report on exonerations nationwide in 2020. Save the date for our next webinar and book group discussion.

Tags Death Penalty, execution, exonerations, San Antonio, Texas

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Family members of Rodney Reed to address TCADP Annual Conference in San Antonio

Post author By Kristin
Post date February 25, 2020

Advocates from across Texas will gather this Saturday, February 29, 2020 at the Whitley Theological Center on the campus of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio for the 22nd annual conference of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP). This event, 2020 Vision for Texas: A Leap Towards Justice, will feature workshops, a keynote address by family members of Rodney Reed, and a panel discussion with current and former District Attorneys of Bexar County.

Tags Annual Awards, Bexar County, capital punishment, Death Penalty, Judge Elsa Alcala, Rodney Reed, San Antonio, Texas

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Execution date for Juan Castillo withdrawn, rescheduled due to Hurricane Harvey

Post author By Kristin
Post date August 31, 2017

A Bexar County judge has approved a motion filed by the District Attorney’s Office to withdraw the September 7 execution date of Juan Castillo due to Hurricane Harvey. According to […]

Tags Death Penalty, execution, Hurricane Harvey, San Antonio, stay of execution, Texas

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State of Texas scheduled to execute TaiChin Preyor

Post author By Kristin
Post date July 27, 2017

The State of Texas is scheduled to put TaiChin Preyor to death tonight, Thursday, July 27, 2017, for the murder of 20-year-old Jamie Tackett in 2004 in San Antonio. If […]

Tags capital punishment, Death Penalty, execution, ineffective assistance of counsel, San Antonio, Texas

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Today – National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims

Post author By tcadp
Post date September 25, 2013

Today, we remember those who have lost their lives through violence and we remember the many loved ones they leave behind. Parents, children, wives and husbands, friends – all who […]

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State of Texas Executes Ramon Hernandez

Post author By Kristin
Post date November 15, 2012

Last night, on November 14, 2012, the State of Texas executed Ramon Hernandez for the 2001 rape and murder of Rosa Rosado in San Antonio. Another co-defendant in the case, co-defendant, Santos Minjarez, also […]

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Three Texas Executions Scheduled for November

Post author By Kristin
Post date October 31, 2012
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The State of Texas is scheduled to carry out these executions in November: On November 8, 2012, Mario Swain, is scheduled to be executed for the December 2002 slaying of […]