Dear Friends, Election night 2024 brought incredible change to this country. Many feel overwhelmed or find it difficult to hold on to hope. The work of fighting for justice day in and out is hard and it takes years—even lifetimes. But we are in it for the long haul. For us, hope is action: facing the most […]
Dear Friends, What played out last night was the most extraordinary legal fight we have ever witnessed in our careers. The execution of an innocent, autistic man, Robert Roberson, was halted at the 11th hour after a group of bipartisan Texas legislators won a temporary restraining order. Their restraining order was vacated by the Texas Court of […]
Dear Friends, We need your help. Texas courts have denied Robert Roberson’s pleas for his life despite scientifically-backed evidence of his innocence. Today, as a bipartisan group of legislators held an emergency meeting to discuss Robert’s case, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Robert’s plea for clemency. Robert’s life is now in Governor Greg Abbott’s hands. Unless […]
Dear Friends, Today marks World Day Against the Death Penalty. It also marks an important day for us as an organization: our team has saved another person from the death penalty. Our client, originally charged with capital murder, has been sentenced to life in prison. His is the 44th life we have saved from the death […]
Dear Friends, This week has exposed how race and injustice continue to play a central role in our country’s administration of the death penalty. Just days ago, Khaliifah Ibn Rayford Daniels (also known as Marcellus Williams), a Black man convicted of killing a white woman, was executed in Missouri despite a strong claim of innocence and over […]
Dear Friends, Please read this powerful piece by author John Grisham about Robert Roberson, 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 Nikki. Tragically, Nikki passed away, and her father […]
