Dear Friends, Please sign the petition to speak out against the execution of Robert Roberson on October 17th. Mr. Roberson is an innocent father with autism who has spent over 20 years on death row in Texas for a crime that never occurred. Mr. Roberson was committed to being a present father to his chronically ill two-year-old daughter […]
Dear Supporters, I am thrilled to share with you Texas Defender Service’s latest report, An Unfulfilled Promise: Assessing the Efficacy of 11.073. The report is the first-ever comprehensive review of Texas’s decade-old junk science law. We found that Texas’s junk science law systematically fails to provide relief to innocent people convicted based on false forensic evidence. No one […]
Dear Friends, I want to make sure you’ve seen today’s breaking investigation by NPR’s Chiara Eisner, revealing that Texas sources its execution drugs from a pharmacy that has been hit with multiple serious violations by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Texas is the most prolific executor in the US. It is also one of the most […]
Dear Friends, We are heartbroken to share that our client Ramiro Gonzales was killed last night by the State of Texas, after the United States Supreme Court denied his lawyers’ final plea for his life. Thank you to the thousands of you who spoke out for Ramiro’s humanity. We find comfort that his story of […]
Dear Friends, Please help save Ramiro Gonzales. Sign the petition calling on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Abbott to spare his life. Ramiro Gonzales is set to be executed by the State of Texas on June 26, 2024, for a murder he committed just a few months after his 18th birthday. Today a […]
Dear Supporters, Please join us for an important conversation about race and the death penalty in Texas. On May 30th from 6:30-7:30 pm central time, Estelle Hebron-Jones, Texas Defender Service’s Director of Special Projects, will co-lead a Zoom discussion about the legacy of lynching and slavery in Texas and its impact on the modern death penalty. You […]
