Texas Moratorium Network (TMN) is a grassroots non-profit organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas. It has almost 18,000 members, about 85 percent of whom are in Texas with the rest in other U.S. states and in other countries. We believe that Texas is in dire need of a moratorium on executions because the sad truth is if you are too poor to afford proper representation and you happen to be a minority, the chances are you will end up in jail and quite possibly on Death Row.We believe that a moratorium is a feasible and attainable goal if the public is educated and begins to take action by writing to their local elected representatives and urging them to pass moratorium legislation.For more info and upcoming events or how YOU can become involved...please visit our home site http://www.texasmoratorium.org or our blog.
springbreakalternative.orgDNA Tests Suggest Gregory Edward Wright, On Texas Death Row, Has Been Wrongfully Convicted Of MurderOn December 10, 1997, a Texas court convicted and sentenced Gregory Edward Wright to the death penalty for murder. Today, his attorneys have authorized release of news that approved DNA tests show evidence used at his trial, and crucial to the prosecution case, is unlikely to be reliable. This new DNA evidence, together with a recent successful polygraph test, suggests that Wright has been truthful in his assertion of innocence. Texas Should Stop All Executions Pending Outcome of U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Lethal Injections Write Gov Perry and Members of the Texas Legislature to Urge them to Support Removing Judge Sharon Keller from her Position as Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Local Moratorium on Death Penalty called by Nueces County DAContact Governor Perry to Protest Each Execution Office of the Governor Main Switchboard: (512) 463-2000
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Office of the Governor Fax: (512) 463-1849
For anyone who wonders about stays on the day of an execution here is a number to call:
TDCJ Public information---1-936-437-1303 ----just ask if the execution is still scheduled. We have decided to hold the annual March to Stop Executions for the first time in Houston this year. It has been held in Austin each year since 2000. Take a look at last year's march in Austin. Then visit the website for this year's march . For more information call the organizers in Houston at 713-503-2633. Here is a flyer . Contact us at 512-302-6715, if you are interested in going to the march from Austin with a shared ride.
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Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break - 2005
Marchers at the 7th Annual March to Stop Executions on Oct 28, 2006. www.freerodneyreed.org
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