Texas Innocence

Specializing in death penalty appeals and innocence cases. Texas' oldest innocence network, established March 2000.

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They Went to Prison as Kids. Now They’re on Death Row. https://t.co/rK2JKWo37t via @MarshallProj

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Citing ‘Christian Values,’ Papua New Guinea Abolishes the Death Penalty https://t.co/npAgKJqMxz

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If John Marion Grant had told Oklahoma how to kill him, he would still be alive. @ebruenig reports on the "fresh madness" of Oklahoma's latest death-row execution. https://t.co/gscT6ooT0i

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Texas is locked in conflict with traditional Christian practice, where rites for the sick, condemned, and dying disrupt the preferences of executioners, @ebruenig writes. https://t.co/pAAKECgzns

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

WOW this is huge: The first texas execution in 10 months and the prison system says they accidentally made an “error” and forgot to let the media in.

No. Media. Witnesses.

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Opinion | Biden fought AEDPA. 25 years later, he can help repeal it. - The Washington Post https://t.co/rCoijJvQEK

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

#breaking The judge in the Clint Young case has just sided with the defense & recommended a new trial, according to sources in the courtroom. No documents entered yet, but I'll tweet them when I get them.

Now, the case heads to the CCA to decide whether he gets a new trial.

[Laura Burstein @LauraBurstein1]

Atty Stmt re: #RubenGutierrez; judge allows DNA testing, but State continues to oppose: “…there can be no reason [for the State] to continue to refuse our reasonable requests for this testing.” Read more here: https://t.co/JSdp9VFTFd

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How Biden Can Reverse Trump’s Death Penalty Expansion https://t.co/PctUZkhQN9 via @MarshallProj

[Jeff Newberry @JeffRNewberry]

Opinion | It’s time to repeal the worst criminal justice law of the past 30 years https://t.co/agVUvTsWOT

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@TCADPdotORG’s 2021 annual conference is off to a great start. This morning’s panel is top-notch. #TCADP2021

[TCADP @TCADPdotORG]

Excited to hear from @keribla @Jordan_S_Rubin @HHill3663 Ngozi Ndulue of @DPInfoCtr @jbrand07 @_acurry @lawzoerussell and many others during the TCADP 2021 Annual Conference, starting online in one hour! #deathpenalty #TCADP2021

[The Next To Die @thenexttodie]

The execution of Edward Lee Busby, Jr. scheduled for Feb. 10 in Texas has been stayed.

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

#BREAKING The next prisoner scheduled for execution in Texas - Edward Busby - just got a stay over concerns that he might be intellectually disabled.

He was scheduled to die in seven days.

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This Dog Won’t Hunt: Texas’s Wrong-headed Argument against Clergy for the Condemned https://t.co/4YPSyV0Lsq

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Federal execution ‘spree’ a callous exercise of power | COMMENTARY https://t.co/JdGlN0XnRt

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A moving tribute to Bill Pelke from The Washington Post ⁦@Journey0fHope⁩ https://t.co/vyIq8zWxnd

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"It’s the Most Outrageous Thing I’ve Ever Seen. It Makes No Sense." – Texas Monthly https://t.co/7Nvu2PQSHD

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A Question of Life and Death Looms for Amy Coney Barrett https://t.co/6oK2AAMXRJ

[Jeff Newberry @JeffRNewberry]

Pope Francis closes the door on the death penalty in ‘Fratelli Tutti’ https://t.co/ULVme9bb6z