Dear Friends, We want to invite you to two important and exciting upcoming events in Austin, Texas. But wherever you live, your advocacy for change to our criminal-legal system here in Texas matters. For those of you who can’t make it in person, we will continue to follow up about how you can engage with […]
Dear Friends, At Texas Defender Service, we’ve received a lot of questions on social media about the U.S. Attorney General’s sweeping memo announcing her intentions to expand use of the death penalty. In that memorandum, the Attorney General stated that her office would assist states in prosecuting capital crimes. The Attorney General also announced that federal […]
Dear Friends, Signed just hours after he returned to office, President Trump’s Executive Order to “restore” the death penalty demanded that the United States Attorney General try to overturn long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedents that protect the constitutional rights of people facing a capital sentence. Then, just yesterday, the U.S. Attorney General issued a sweeping memo announcing their intentions […]
