tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187480042009-12-31T14:30:28.048-06:00The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a grassroots Texas organization comprised of individuals and groups who work to end the death penalty in all cases, everywhere. We are an inclusive organization composed of human rights activists; death row prisoners and their families; crime victims and their families; persons working within the criminal justice system; and concerned citizens opposed to capital punishment.TCADPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696943072482279442noreply@blogger.comBlogger705125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18748004.post-56551579903451047982009-12-31T14:30:00.001-06:002009-12-31T14:30:28.097-06:00

Dec. 31TEXAS:Fewer People Being Sent To Death RowA lack of cash is a chief reason fewer people are being sent to the deathchamber in Texas, and in the Panhandle region.District Attorneys we spoke with say they must be very careful about thecases in which someone could be sentenced to death.One prosecutor says the anti capital punishment lobby has made seekingdeath extremely expensive.Randall

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Dec. 18TEXAS:Death sentences in Texas declining along with nationwide trend,anti-capital punishment group saysDeath sentences issued in Texas remained at historically low levels thisyear, part of a nationwide trend, an anti-capital punishment group reportstoday.Texas juries issued nine death sentences in 2009, the same as in 2008, theDeath Penalty Information Center said in a new report,

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Dec. 17TEXAS:Death row inmate's appeals are rejectedA Texas death row inmate whose threatening calls to a state senator a yearago prompted a lockdown of state prisons and crackdown on contrabandthroughout the nation's 2nd-largest corrections system lost an appeal ofhis conviction and death sentence for the slayings of 2 men in 2004.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected 6

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Dec. 14TEXAS:Fewer Texas inmates sentenced to death----The relatively new option oflife in prison without parole may be the biggest factor influencingjuries, but some observers think jurors are simply less willing to sendprisoners to death row.While the debate over capital punishment rages in Texas, the number ofinmates sentenced to death row in 2009 is at a 35-year low.Prosecutors have been

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Dec. 13TEXAS:Death penalty cases more expensive than lifetime imprisonment, but localCDA says cost never a considerationLegal experts and trial attorneys agree that most people outside the legalcommunity don't realize the high cost of the death penalty.This fall, Gray County spent nearly $1 million seeking the death penaltyagainst Levi King, who pleaded guilty to slaying a pregnant woman,

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Dec. 10TEXAS:Death Row Inmate Sues Prosecutor, Seeks DNA TestA Texas death row inmate facing execution next year has sued a Panhandleprosecutor, alleging she is denying him access to DNA evidence that hasnever been tested and could prove he is innocent of murdering 3 people in1993.Henry Watkins Skinner alleges in his original complaint in Skinner v.Switzer that the refusal by Lynn Switzer,

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Dec. 10TEXAS:Texas Death Penalty Sentencing DeclinesThe number of new death sentences imposed in Texas this year was thelowest since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, according to areport released Dec. 7 by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the DeathPenalty. There has already been another death sentence issued since thereport was released, bringing the total handed out this year to 9;

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Dec. 9TEXAS:Death penalty for guard killer in Texas escapeA Texas prison inmate convicted of killing a corrections officer during aSeptember 2007 escape is headed to death row.A jury in Leon County decided Tuesday that 39-year-old Jerry Duane Martinshould die for the death of 59-year-old guard Susan Canfield of NewWaverly.Canfield was killed when Martin and John Ray Falk, both inmates at theWynne

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Dec. 8TEXAS:Court allows appeal by TX death row 32-year inmateOne of Texas' longest-serving death row inmates, who says the inadequatelegal help he received and his own mental impairment make him ineligiblefor execution, can appeal his sentence, a federal court has ruled.Anthony Leroy Pierce was condemned for the August 1977 robbery-slaying of40-year-old Fred Johnson, the manager of a Houston

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Dec. 7TEXAS:DA to seek death penalty for man charged in LBJ student's deathTravis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said Monday thatprosecutors will seek the death penalty for Areli Carbajal Escobar,charged with capital murder in the May slaying of his 17-year-old neighborat an East Austin apartment complex.Escobar, 30, is accused of sexually assaulting and fatally stabbing

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Dec. 7TEXAS:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETCADP Report Shows New Death Sentences in Texas at Record LowConcerns about Wrongful Execution Spark Scrutiny of State's Death PenaltySystemNew death sentences in Texas remained at historic low levels in 2009,according to the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's (TCADP)newly-released report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2009: The Yearin Review.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, December 7, 2009CONTACT: Kristin Houlé, Executive Director512-441-1808 (office); 512-751-7009 (cell),khoule@tcadp.orgTCADP Report Shows New Death Sentences in Texas at Record LowConcerns about Wrongful Execution Spark Scrutiny of State’s Death Penalty System(Austin, Texas) — New death sentences in Texas remained at historic low levels in 2009, according to the Texas

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Dec. 4TEXAS:Convicted serial killer David Leonard Wood settles in at El Paso CountyJailConvicted serial killer David Leonard Wood has settled in at the El PasoCounty Jail while he waits for the Dec. 14 court hearing on his appealthat stayed his execution in August.During his stay at the jail, extra guards are provided whenever he ismoved from one place to another. During that time, all other

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Dec. 4TEXAS----executionInmate executed for raping, killing 11-year-oldA 44-year-old Texas man was executed on Thursday evening for raping andmurdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was toomentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.Bobby Wayne Woods received lethal injection about a half-hour after theU.S. Supreme Court refused to halt his punishment, which was

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Dec. 3TEXAS----impending executionTexas to execute man convicted of killing Granbury girlA condemned 44-year-old inmate is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court keeps himfrom the Texas death chamber for the fatal slashing of an 11-year-oldgirl.Bobby Wayne Woods is set for lethal injection this evening in Huntsvillefor the April 1997 abduction, rape and slaying of Sarah Patterson, hisex-girlfriend's

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Dec. 2TEXAS----impending executionMan convicted of killing girl, 11, to die ThursdayBobby Wayne Woods was charged with abducting an 11-year-old girl, rapingher and fatally slashing her throat, and of beating and choking her9-year-old brother and leaving him for dead by a cemeteryThe outcry in Hood County, near Fort Worth, was so great that Wood'scapital murder trial was moved.Former Hood County

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Nov. 30TEXAS:URGENT ACTION APPEAL - From Amnesty International USANote: Please write on behalf of these persons even though you may not havereceived the original UA when issued on September 10, 2009. Thanks!30 November 2009Further information on UA 240/09 (10 September 2009) and follow up (24September 2009) - Death penaltyTEXAS Kenneth Mosley (m)Kenneth Mosley, who received a stay of execution in

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Nov. 30TEXAS:Jury to Decide Fate of Inmate Accused in Guard's Death ----Closingarguments begin Monday morning in the capital murder trial of a Huntsvilleprison inmateClosing arguments begin Monday morning in the capital murder trial of aHuntsville prison inmate accused of killing a TDCJ officer.Jerry Martin is accused of killing guard Susan Canfield as Martin andanother inmate escaped from the

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Nov. 28TEXAS:Texas sends fewer to death row----Life without parole option cited amongreasons for dropWhile the debate over capital punishment rages anew in Texas, new inmatesgoing to death row have hit a 35-year low as prosecutors push for fewerdeath sentences and, many believe, juries have become less willing to givethem.Various factors have contributed to a stark decline in death sentences.The

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Nov. 27TEXAS:URGENT ACTION APPEAL- From Amnesty International USA27 November 2009UA 317/09 Death penaltyTEXAS-- Bobby Wayne Woods (m) Bobby Wayne Woods, a 44-year-old white man,is due to be executed in Texas on 3 December, his third execution date intwo years. He was convicted in 1998 of the murder of a young girl in 1997.His lawyer is appealing for clemency on the grounds that Woods haslearning

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Nov. 26TEXAS----new death sentenceFabian Hernandez sentenced to death----Jury's decision comes 2 weeks aftertrial beganJurors on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for the murdersof his former wife and her friend. The defendant, Fabian Hernandez, willget an automatic appeal and can expect to spend at least 6 years on deathrow.As Thanksgiving approached, the jury handed up the death

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Nov. 25TEXAS:Hernandez Gets Death Sentence For Double MurderA jury sentenced Fabian Hernandez to death in the killing of his estrangedwife and her boyfriend.Hernandez showed little emotion as his death sentence was handed downWednesday afternoon, while tears flowed freely from others in thecourtroom.Hernandez's attorney said his client now feels anxious about the future ofhis family, including

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Nov. 25TEXAS:Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces ExecutionWhen Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the1st man set to die may be mentally retarded. A 2002 Supreme Court rulingbans the execution of mentally retarded prisoners. But after years ofbeing represented by a discredited attorney who ruined any chance for anappeal based on his disabilities, the fate of Bobby Wayne

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Nov. 22TEXAS:Waco judge admonishes defense mitigator in potential death penalty casePamela Stites said all she was trying to do is save Robert ChaviraEspinosas life.She admits that she might have misspoken. However, she denies multipleallegations from family members of Espinosas alleged victim that she liedto them, misrepresented who she was and overstepped her duties as acourt-appointed

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Nov. 19 TEXAS----execution Killer executed after Perry rejects panel's advice Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejected a pardons board plea to spare the life of aHouston murderer, instead sending him to the state death chamber Thursdaynight for his part in the 1996 killing of a convenience store clerk. Robert Lee Thompson, 34, didnt fire the shot that killed clerk MansoorRahim, also identified as Mansoor

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