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Texas’ 22nd Annual March & Rally will be virtual again this year

Texas’ 22nd Annual March & Rally will be virtual again this year  Here’s the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_-v5M9RfjQ8S9PE3gx9FA5A WOW! We have an exciting, informative and motivating lineup. Don’t miss a minute! **Sabrina Butler-Smith and Pam Perillo who both spent years on death row. **Music from the Free Radicals, Marilyn Santoyo (6 yrs old!) & Trey Legall. **Poetry […]

22nd Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Saturday, December 4, 2021

The 22nd Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will take place Saturday, December 4, 2021. The event will take place online again this year.

Elsa Alcala Speaking at 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

The 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty was online this year October 10, 2020 in order to keep everyone as safe as possible during the pandemic. Here is one of the speakers, Elsa Alcala, a former Republican judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Sponsors included: Austin Abolitionists, Texas Death Penalty Abolition […]

21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Online Saturday, October 10, 2020 at Noon.

The 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held online on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at noon. Information on how to watch the stream will be posted soon.

Speakers at 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 10, 2020 (Virtual Online Only)

Online Program: Sandrine Skinner Wife of TX death row prisoner Hank Skinner, Board member of French abolitionist organization ECPM Harold Dutton Member of the Texas House of Representatives, District 142 Elsa Alcala Former elected judge of the nine person Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Bill Pelke Founder of the Journey of Hope: From Violence to […]

Speakers at 20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

The rally starts at 2 PM October 19, 2019 on the South Steps of the Texas Capitol. There will also be a press conference inside the Capitol in the Speaker’s Committee Room (2W.6) from noon to 1 PM Speakers list: Lily Hughes to Emcee At the Capitol before marching: Witness to Innocence speakers (all exonerated […]

20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Oct 19, 2019

The 20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin, Texas on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 2pm at the Texas Capitol.

Five Death Row Exonerees at the Texas Governor’s Mansion

Five Death Row survivors from Witness to Innocence at the 19th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 20, 2018 in front of the Texas Governor’s Mansion. Albert Burrell, Derrick Jamison, Ron Keine, Gary Drinkard, Shujaa Graham. We owe them a debt of gratitude for traveling to Austin as living examples of innocent people […]

Ron Keine to Speak at 19th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

Ron Keine spent two years on death row in New Mexico before his exoneration and release. He will speak at the 19th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty October 20, 2018

Five Death Row Exonerees to Speak at 19th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

Thank you to Witness to Innocence for sending five death row exonerees to speak at the 19th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. Come hear their stories at the Texas Capitol in Austin on October 20, 2018 at 2 PM. They are: Ron Keine who spent years on death row in new Mexico, Gary […]

Call Rick Perry to Protest: He Cancels Meeting of Forensic Science Commission; Replaces Chair: Blocks Search for Truth in Todd Willingham Case

Many of us had been planning to attend the meeting of the Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday to deliver public comments to the Commission and to hold a demonstration to Shout it from the Rooftops that Todd Willingham was innocent. Now, Texas Governor Rick Perry has canceled the meeting and replaced the Commission’s chair […]

Jeanette Popp is Coming to the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

Jeanette Popp, mother of a murder victim, has agreed to come and speak at the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 24. Jeanette published a new book this year called.  Mortal Justice: A True Story of Murder and Vindication. It can be bought on Amazon. Her book tells the story of […]

Video of Nightline Report on Todd Willingham

Todd Willingham – Innocent Man Executed in Texas (Nightline Sept 17, 2009) from Scott Cobb on Vimeo. Sign the petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed […]

Shujaa Graham is coming to the march!

We talked to Bill Pelke, president and cofounder of Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing, and Shujaa Graham today and found out that Shujaa can come to the march. Shujaa was convicted of a murder he did not commit and spent three years on death row in California. He was later found innocent, exonerated and […]

MSNBC Video of New Yorker author David Grann Talking About Todd Willingham

In this interview from his appearance on MSNBC, David Grann, who wrote the article “Trial by Fire” in the New Yorker about the Todd Willingham case, says there is “not a single shred of evidence of arson”. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Texas Should Admit Todd Willingham was […]