Published October 01, 2009 @ 01:18AM PT

  Texas Governor Rick Perry shook up the Texas Forensic Science Commission yesterday because it was on course to discover the truth that Texas executed an innocent person - Todd Willingham. He replaced the chair and two members of the commission. Read more at www.camerontoddwillingham.com. Shout this name from the rooftops, Todd Willingham. He was innocent and Texas killed him. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in 2006, wrote that, in the modern judicial system there has not been “a single case–not one–in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops.” Take part... Read More

Published June 08, 2009 @ 01:54AM PT

Bob Ray Sanders devotes his Sunday column to the 200th execution under Governor Rick Perry. Here are a few excerpts: Last Tuesday, as the state of Texas prepared to execute Terry Lee Hankins, people gathered in several U.S. cities and on two continents to mark a milestone in Rick Perry’s tenure as governor. Hankins, by no means a sympathetic character because of his gruesome crimes, became the 200th person to be executed in Texas since Perry has been in office. He was the 16th to be put to death by the state this year. To mark the occasion, anti-death penalty protests were held in Huntsville; Austin; Houston; Albuquerque, N.M.; Paris; and Leipzig, Germany (TMN Note: Montreal, Canada and Brussels, Belgium too)  Texas is notorious throughout the world for the number of e... Read More

Published April 29, 2009 @ 02:37PM PT

We are moving up in the race to win the Jenzabar Social Media Leadership Award contest for $3,000. Forward this to your friends and let's bring this money to Texas to use against the death penalty in the state where on June 2 the governor will be in office for the 200th execution since he became governor. Visit the site www.protest200executions.com to learn more about planned protests of the 200th execution. Several Texas anti-death penalty groups are jointly entered in the Jenzabar Social Media Leadership Award contest for $3,000. The winner is the entry that gets the most people to comment on their entry by May 8, so to "vote", you leave a comment on the blog post of their nomination. They deserve to win because they have used social media tools very effectively to jointly mobiliz... Read More