Dear Friends, We were proud to be at the Texas Legislature on Tuesday with our partners to testify against HB 3330, a bill that would roll back the Michael Morton Act. Named after Michael Morton, a father who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of his wife and spent nearly 25 years incarcerated for a crime […]
Dear Friends, To celebrate Second Chances Month, we are proud to share two important upcoming events with Texas Defender Service! To celebrate Second Chances Month, we are proud to share two important upcoming events with Texas Defender Service! On April 29th, we are co-sponsoring a film screening and discussion of In their Hands, a documentary […]
Dear Friends, On Monday, March 3rd, 2025, our Director of Special Projects Estelle Hebron-Jones joined renowned Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maurice Chammah at the LBJ Library’s Future Forum for an intimate conversation about the death penalty in Texas. For those of you who couldn’t make it in person, you can now watch the recording […]
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 […]
