Three days before the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty this Saturday October 30 at 2 PM at the Texas Capitol in Austin, an innocent man has been released from Texas Death Row. From the Houston Chronicle: A Texas inmate sentenced to die in 1994 has been released…read more
Media Advisory For immediate release October 26, 2010 www.MarchforAbolition.org Contacts: Scott Cobb, Texas Moratorium Network 512-552-4743 Laura Brady, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, 512-638-1048 Six Innocent Death Row Exonerees to Lead the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Saturday Oct 30 2010 in Austin at the Texas Capitol Pre-March Press Conference to Be Held on…read more
Thank you to The Austin Chronicle for being a sponsor of the annual march! They are giving us a free ad in next Thursday’s Chronicle to promote the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. Austin has the greatest alternative weekly!
Tonight October 21 at 7 pm in Austin, we will have the last organizing meeting for the Oct 30th 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. Everyone is welcome to come. This will be the final planning meeting before the event itself, although we will likely schedule a work party for one day next…read more
Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the speakers at the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty at 2 PM on October 30th at the Texas Capitol in Austin. She is a Houston teacher and playwright who befriended Texas death row prisoner Todd Willingham. Her story is featured in the New Yorker article by David…read more
Gary Drinkard, an innocent man who spent almost six years on death row in Alabama, will be a special guest at the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 30 at the Texas Capitol in Austin at 2 PM. Gary was released from death row on May 25, 2001. He will join…read more
Albert Burrell, an innocent man who spent 13 years on death row in Louisiana, will be a special guest at the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 30 at the Texas Capitol in Austin at 2 PM. He will join exonerees Shujaa Graham, Curtis McCarty, Ron Keine, Derrick Jamison and Greg…read more
Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner will be one of the speakers at the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 30th at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Sandrine is a French national married to Hank Skinner, who is on Texas death row and is seeking to have DNA tested that could prove his innocence. On…read more
Here is a flyer in PDF format that you can download, print, and put up in coffeeshops, on bulletin boards, around your college or anywhere you find a good place to help spread the word about the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 30 at 2 PM at the Texas Capitol…read more
If you would like to be listed as an endorser of the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 30 in Austin at the Texas Capitol at 2 PM, use the form underneath this post to leave your name and a comment. Your comment could be why you are endorsing the march,…read more