Category: death penalty

Pro Bono Partners Helped Cheryl Come Home

Pro Bono Partners Helped Cheryl Come Home

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Dear Friends of TDS, Cheryl is a mother of four and a grandmother. She spent more than ten years behind bars for a tragic accident. Even the victim’s survivors felt she shouldn’t have been prosecuted in the first place. Cheryl’s family yearned for her to come home, but the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied […]

The Fundamental Inhumanity of the Death Penalty https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TN_State_Capitol_Building.jpg attr: Blake Wylie

The Fundamental Inhumanity of the Death Penalty

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Dear Friends of TDS, Yesterday, the State of Tennessee tried and failed to execute Christa Pike, a survivor of  childhood sexual abuse who has spent over three decades on death row. After the state administered two doses of phenobarbital, Christa stayed alive and was ultimately rushed to the hospital.  Christa was just 18 years old when she […]