The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin on Saturday October 22,2011 at the Texas Capitol.
Now is the time to join the fight to end the death penalty! More and more people are concluding that the death penalty is a punishment that Texas can do without.
Texas has executed 475 people since 1982 (as of Sept 23,2011). Since Rick Perry became governor 236 people have been executed,including Todd Willingham,who was an innocent person executed by Texas in 2004.
Anthony Graves is an innocent person who was released in October 27,2010 after 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit,including 14 years on Texas death row.
12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Oct 22,2011 in Austin Texas
The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty was Saturday Oct 22,2011 at 2 PM in Austin,Texas on the north side of the Capitol. The march was led by 25 exonerated death row survivors who each spent many years on death rows across the U.S. for crimes they did not commit.March to Abolish the Death Penalty:
Each October since 2000,Texans and their supporters have gathered in Austin to oppose the death penalty. Once again in 2011,activists,family members of people on death row,community leaders,exonerated former prisoners,family members of murder victims,leaders of faith communities and all those calling for repeal of the Texas death penalty will come together at the Texas Capitol. Join us! Visit marchforabolition.org for more information and to sign on as a sponsor of the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. Come help build the statewide coalition that will eventually repeal the death penalty in Texas.The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin on October 22,2011 at the Texas Capitol. Join the Facebook event page. Each October since 2000,people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas,the U.S. and other countries have taken a day out of their year and gathered in Austin to raise their voices together and loudly express their opposition to the death penalty. The march is a coming together of activists,family members of those on death row,community leaders,exonerated prisoners and all those calling for abolition. The march started in Austin in 2000. In 2007 and 2008,the march was held in Houston. It came back to Austin in 2009 and 2010.
The annual march is organized as a joint project by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations working together with leading national organizations:Texas Moratorium Network,the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty,the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement,Texas Students Against the Death Penalty,Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center,Kids Against the Death Penalty,and national organizations including Journey of Hope ... from Violence to Healing,and Witness to Innocence.
Before his execution,Todd Willingham told his parents,“Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.”
Before his execution,Troy Davis told his supporters in a letter,"There are so many more Troy Davises. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city,state by state and country by country."
On October 22,2011 at 2 PM in Austin,you can join the fight for justice by attending the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Witness to Innocence exonerated death row survivors from seven states will be taking their powerful message against the death penalty across Texas from October 12th through 19th. They will also attend the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty in Austin on October 22.
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