Death Penalty

TCADP November 2020 Newsletter: Using your voice for justice

November 2, 2020 Kristin executions, innocence, Pope Francis, racial bias, TCADP Annual Conference

In this edition of our monthly newsletter, you’ll find information about four scheduled executions and how you can take action. Also, Pope Francis reiterates the “inadmissibility” of the death penalty, the Governor of California addresses systemic racism, and a new documentary film about the Texas death penalty case of Melissa Lucio is now available to watch online.

TCADP October 2020 Newsletter: Virtual events abound this month

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Kristin intellectual disabilities, Lobby Corps, prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

In this edition of our monthly newsletter, you’ll find information about a slew of virtual events this month, including two TCADP webinars on “future dangerousness.” We also share findings from an important new report on race and the death penalty and updates on the cases of two men who will be removed from death row based on evidence of intellectual disability.

TCADP September 2020 Newsletter: Join us for an evening of forgiveness, hope, and resilience

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Kristin Dallas, executions, innocence, Lobby Corps, Tarrant County

In this edition of our monthly newsletter, you’ll find information about a special virtual event on September 22 featuring Alabama death row exoneree Anthony Ray Hinton. Updates on scheduled executions and recent case developments also are available. Applications for the TCADP Lobby Corps and nominations for our annual awards are now open.

TCADP August 2020 Newsletter: More federal executions scheduled

August 4, 2020 Kristin COVID-19, executions, Tarrant County

In this edition of our monthly newsletter, you’ll find information about federal executions, mid-year analysis of use of the death penalty nationwide, and the spread of COVID-19 in Texas prisons, including the unit that houses the men on death row.

State of Texas executes Billy Wardlow

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 Kristin execution, Future Dangerousness

Update as of 7:40 PM, July 8, 2020: The State of Texas executed Billy Wardlow tonight, July 8, 2020, despite an outpouring of support from legislators, juvenile justice and neuroscience experts, and so many others. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider his appeals, and there was no word from Texas Governor Greg Abbott in […]

TCADP July 2020 Newsletter: “Future dangerousness” and the Texas death penalty

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Kristin executions, U.S. Supreme Court

In this edition Reflections on race and “future dangerousness” in the Texas death penalty Scheduled executions: State of Texas seeks to execute Billy Joe Wardlow for a crime he committed 27 years ago at the age of 18; federal government sets four execution dates Case updates: Bobby Moore, who spent 40 years on death row, […]

Race and “future dangerousness” in the Texas death penalty

July 1, 2020July 8, 2020 Kristin Future Dangerousness, racial bias

Many of Texas’s most troubling death penalty cases are rooted in a corrosive system of racism fostered by predictions of future dangerousness, a unique facet of our state’s capital punishment statute.

U.S. Supreme Court remands case of Terence Andrus based on woefully inadequate legal representation

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Kristin Ineffective assistance of counsel, U.S. Supreme Court

On Monday, June 8, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded the death penalty case of Terence Andrus to Texas for further review, finding that his trial attorney provided inadequate and deficient legal representation. Among his many failings were neglecting to investigate or present readily-available mitigating evidence of Andrus’s troubled upbringing, which could have persuaded the jury to spare his life.