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TCADP June 2025 Newsletter: A summer with no executions in Texas

In this edition: Scheduled executions: No executions set in Texas for the next three months Update on innocence cases: Charles Don Flores asks court not to set execution date  In case […]

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State of Texas executes Matthew Johnson

Last night, May 20, 2025, Texas executed Matthew Johnson. In 2013, a Dallas County jury sentenced him to death for killing Nancy Harris while robbing the convenience store where she worked […]

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TCADP May 2025 Newsletter: Life, mercy, and justice

In this edition:  Scheduled executions: Texas set to execute Matthew Johnson on May 20 In case you missed it: New reports document global use of the death penalty and exonerations […]

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State of Texas executes Moises Sandoval Mendoza

Last night, April 23, 2025, the State of Texas executed Moises Sandoval Mendoza after the Supreme Court of the United States denied his application for a stay of execution and a […]

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TCADP April 2025 Newsletter: Gains and losses at the Texas Legislature

In this edition:  Scheduled executions: Texas set to execute Moises Mendoza on April 23 Texas legislative updates: Death penalty abolition bill gains two coauthors; Texas Senate passes bill to expand […]

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TCADP March 2025 Newsletter: Updates on innocence cases, Annual Conference recap, and the anniversary of a landmark decision

In this edition:  Scheduled executions: Urge a 90-day reprieve for David Wood to test the DNA Updates on innocence cases: Robert Roberson asks the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals again to […]

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State of Texas executes Richard Tabler

Last night, February 13, 2025, Texas carried out its second execution in a week, putting Richard Tabler to death for killing Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed after a dispute in Bell […]

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State of Texas executes Steven Nelson

Last night, February 5, 2025, the State of Texas executed Steven Nelson after the Supreme Court of the United States refused to intervene, denying his petition for a writ of certiorari […]