Why is the UK involved in a Texas death case?
comments ()The following is a guest blog post by Hugh Southey, an English Barrister who has worked on Texan death penalty cases. He can be reached by email. The United Kingdom recently took the...
View ArticleTime to face the truth in the Willingham case
comments ()Note: The following is a rebuttal to a column by the chief prosecutor of the Willingham case in the Corsicana Daily Sun. It is written by Nina Morrison, a Staff Attorney at the Innocence...
View ArticleThree New Death Row Exonerations Underscore Systemic Failures
comments ()The following is a guest blog post from Kristin Houlé, Executive Director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. E-mail her at khoule@tcadp.org. Amidst the uproar over the...
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A global experience in fighting the death penalty
comments () This is a guest blog post written by Susannah Sheffer, project director and staff writer at Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights. Her e-mail address is sheffer@mvfhr.org. She shares...
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Alternative Spring Break: The issue becomes personal
comments () This blog post is written by James Tate, a student at the University of Texas at Dallas. After finishing his undergraduate degree, he plans to attend law school and pursue a career in...
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Alternative Spring Break: Lessons in activism
comments () This blog post is written by James Tate, a student at the University of Texas at Dallas. After finishing his undergraduate degree, he plans to attend law school and pursue a career in...
View ArticleNo surprise here: TCCA denies Hank Skinner appeal
comments ()This is part of why the system is so maddening to regular folks like me. We see that there is some evidence that might point to reasonable doubt in a case where a man’s life hangs in the...
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Alternative Spring Break: Learning how to participate in the legislative process
comments () This blog post is written by James Tate, a student at the University of Texas at Dallas. After finishing his undergraduate degree, he plans to attend law school and pursue a career in...
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East Texan honors mother by fighting the death penalty
comments () The following blog post was written by Chris Castillo, who was just named to a new position with a national nonprofit group of murder victims’ families that opposes the death penalty. For...
View ArticleWhy I changed my mind
comments ()This guest blog post is written by Donna Lackey of Dallas, a frequent contributor to Dallas Morning News blogs and opinion pages. Many factors changed my mind about the death penalty since I...
View ArticleWe know enough about Bruce Webster to execute him
comments ()The following guest blog post is written by Dudley Sharp, a death penalty supporter and victims’ rights activist from Houston. RE: Editorial: “Mental retardation and the death penalty,...
View ArticleLinda Carty case displays weakness in Texas system
comments ()The following is a guest blog post by Hugh Southey, an English Barrister who has worked on Texan death penalty cases. He can be reached by email. Linda Carty’s case has been generating...
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Rick Halperin: Why don’t people in Texas talk about the death penalty?
comments () The following blog post is written by Rick Halperin, the director of SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program. He can be reached at rhalperi@smu.edu. SMU’s Embrey Human Rights program … [visit...
View ArticleArson not excluded in Todd Willingham case
comments ()The following guest blog post is written by Dudley Sharp, a death penalty supporter and victims’ rights activist from Houston. The state of the forensics in the Cameron Todd Willingham case...
View ArticleTexas Defender Service: The six best arguments against the death penalty in...
comments ()The following guest blog post was written by Andrea Keilen, Executive Director of Texas Defender Service. Her e-mail address is akeilen@texasdefender.org. This week, U.S. Supreme Court...
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Spring Break Alternative in Austin: Party Later and Save the World Now
comments () This blog post is written by Pamela Skjolsvik, a blogger and author currently finishing her first book, Death Becomes Us. A resident of Bedford, she earned a master’s degree in 2010 from …...
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These young voices will soon be heard
comments () This blog post is written by Pamela Skjolsvik, a blogger and author currently finishing her first book, Death Becomes Us. A resident of Bedford, she earned a master’s degree in 2010 from …...
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Don’t judge a book by its cover
comments () This blog post is written by Pamela Skjolsvik, a blogger and author currently finishing her first book, Death Becomes Us. A resident of Bedford, she earned a master’s degree in 2010 from …...
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Lobbying, and rallying and marching — Oh My!
comments () This blog post is written by Pamela Skjolsvik, a blogger and author currently finishing her first book, Death Becomes Us. A resident of Bedford, she earned a master’s degree in 2010 from …...
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
comments () This blog post is written by Pamela Skjolsvik, a blogger and author currently finishing her first book, Death Becomes Us. A resident of Bedford, she earned a master’s degree in 2010 from …...
View ArticleReview of unfair death penalty sentencing as important as innocence
comments ()The following guest blog post is written by Lisa Graybill, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties (ACLU) of Texas. Though death sentences and executions have declined in recent years...
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Texas execution could risk Americans’ safety abroad
comments () The following guest blog post is written by Sandra Babcock, a Clinical Professor and Clinical Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law....
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Rais Bhuiyan: Is Rick Perry for victim’s rights, or is that all talk?...
comments () The following guest blog post is written by Rais Bhuiyan of Dallas, a victim of Mark Stroman’s post-9/11 hate crime spree in which Stroman killed two other people. visit site to read more]
View ArticleJustice served in Memphis Five case?
comments ()The following guest blog post was written by Chris Castillo, Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation: Eighteen years after three 8-year-old Cub Scouts were murdered in West Memphis,...
View ArticleThe Psychological Cost of the Death Penalty
comments ()The following is a guest blog post by Allison Gamble, a contributing writer for forensicpsychology.net. The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested issues in our criminal justice...
View ArticleFiscal costs and benefits of capital punishment
comments ()The following is a guest blog post by Elaine Hirsch, a freelance writer. The topic of capital punishment, especially as it relates to effectiveness at deterring crime and its costs to the...
View ArticleThe death penalty: How big of an issue is it on Texas college campuses?
comments ()The following is a guest blog post by Brian Jenkins of Braintrack.com. Is the death penalty right or wrong? The question has, of course, inspired many heated debates in Texas and in other...
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