Dear Friends, In one of his very first acts this January, President Trump called for use of the death penalty in every case in which an undocumented migrant commits a capital crime. As Cathy Buerger wrote in her op ed in Just Security, “the order signals that some people—by virtue of who they are—deserve to be killed.” President Trump’s Order […]
Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know that Scott Panetti, a former Texas Defender Service client, died at a prison hospital in Galveston on May 26, 2025. Panetti, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had spent over 30 years on Texas death row. He was 67 years old. Panetti is most known for his 2007 case […]
Dear Friends, I wanted to share the important news that our former board member Charles S. Kelley and his team at Mayer Brown, along with Advancing Real Change, Inc., have succeeded in winning relief for their capitally convicted client Larry Estrada. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that Mr. Estrada has intellectual disability and […]
