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 […]
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 […]
