#TCADP

[jessetheanarchist]

CMN has added the letter writing campaign for David Renteria: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/action/2023-11/stop-execution-david-renteria

You can find other info/campaigns for his clemency here:

David Renteria claims he was coerced by gang members into assisting with the murder, and idea which a witness who was not called to the original trial is able to corroborate

Dubious Executions Happening in November.

you know, as per usual in the USA. You can find the list here:

https://deathpenaltyaction.org/take-action/execution-petitions/

and if you live in Texas, Alabama, or Oklahoma you can this site for letter writing campaigns:

First execution (Texas) is happening on the 9th, last one (Oklahoma) is on the 30th. The other two (Texas and Alabama) in the 16th. In case you wondering by when you need to sign/write your letters

[dfwnews]

Texas’s death penalty mired in a mess of its own making as inconsistencies, dysfunction continue to plague system

Texas’s death penalty mired in a mess of its own making as inconsistencies, dysfunction continue to plague system

Austin, Texas – Use of the death penalty in Texas remained near historic low levels this year, with juries sentencing three people to death and the state executing three people, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP).   Unlike last year, the small number of executions in 2021 is not attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the state’s ongoing…

[heppchas]

“Living on Purpose”, 36”x36”, archival inkjet print on paper, 2019. During a benefit auction for the Texas Coalition to End the Death Penalty at Dorf Gallery on April, 4 2019, I stood near the back edge of the crowd to listen to emotionally intense testimonies and poetry of inmates and advocates. At one point I looked up to see the wonderful canopy of trees, I felt their hopefulness and calm. The fluidity of limbs lit by artificial lights etched into the intense dark blue sky removed me from the surroundings. @dorf_world @tcadp #charlesheppner #arborealchords #treeart #abstractphotography #klompchinggallery @klompchinggallery (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw2VZo9FWL-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rs3g9qzzjnlv

[hyaenagallery]

Charles Robert "Charlie" Moore (1934 - 2014) was an American Methodist minister, social justice activist and racial activist. Moore was born near Grand Saline, Texas, and grew up in a town he described as a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan that was blighted by racial discrimination. As a 10-year-old boy, he was deeply affected by accounts of people of color who had been brutally decapitated and had their heads placed on poles, supposedly earning the town the nickname, "Poletown." Moore graduated from Tyler Junior College in 1954, then earned a B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University in 1956 and a B.D. from Perkins School of Theology at SMU in 1956. He served in various Texas churches from 1953 until 1965 when he began post doctorate studies at Harvard Divinity School and Boston University. In the mid 1960s he moved to Chicago and began working for the Ecumenical Institute. This work took him to Africa, Brussels, India and the Middle East. In 1990, Moore led Grace Methodist church in Austin, Texas, where he opened the doors to gays and lesbians. While serving in San Antonio in 1972, Moore organized a meeting of Methodists to bring attention to the injustice of the Vietnam War. He drew attention to how the United Methodist Church treated gays and lesbians by going on a hunger strike. When the United Methodist bishops held a worldwide meeting in Austin in 1995, Moore's 15-day hunger strike ended only after the bishops acknowledged their role in contributing to stigma and ostracism of gays and lesbians.  Moore had aligned himself with several progressive liberal and left leaning causes throughout his life. He helped organize the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP), which operates as a resource for those opposed to capital punishment. In 2000 he received awards from Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and TCADP. On June 23, 2014 Moore drove from his home in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas to Grand Saline, about 75 miles east of Dallas. He parked his car in a shopping center parking lot on the far eastern part of the city. He then proceeded to pour gasoline on himself and set himself ablaze. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/BriNHFqBqqF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ez6cn8n4o6pl

[terrycanales40]

RT @TCADPdotORG: "It's time for a change." @TerryCanales40 on #deathpenalty during HB 1537 hearing

"It's time for a change." @TerryCanales40 on #deathpenalty during HB 1537 hearing

— TCADP (@TCADPdotORG) April 18, 2017

via Twitter https://twitter.com/TerryCanales40 April 17, 2017 at 08:53PM