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Our New Report on Extreme Racial Disparities in Harris County’s Use of the...
Dear Supporters, My name is Estelle Hebron-Jones, and I am the Director of Special Projects at Texas Defender Service, a role that I stepped into in December of last year after five years as an...
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The Fight to End Life Without Parole for Texas Children
Dear Supporters, We wanted to share the news that our client Eric Johnson has been resentenced. When he was a child, Eric received an unconstitutional sentence of mandatory juvenile life without...
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It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Dear Supporters, In Texas, people can be convicted of murder and sentenced to death for crimes committed by other people. That’s possible under Texas’s incredibly harsh Law of Parties. As we explained...
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Invisible Wounds
Dear Supporters, We are grateful to share the news that our client Stewart Mettz has been spared the death penalty. The prosecutor agreed to drop the death penalty, and Stewart has been sentenced to...
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BREAKING: Justice Sotomayor Dissents from Dillion Compton’s Cert Denial
Dear Supporters, We are disappointed that justice has been denied for our client Dillion Compton. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review for Mr. Compton, despite the fact that the...
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Join Us for Texas Defender Service’s 2024 Light of Justice Luncheon!
Dear Friends, Please join us for Texas Defender Service’s 2024 Light of Justice Luncheon, featuring New York Times bestselling novelist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and co-chaired by Caitlin Halpern of...
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Join Us for an Essential Conversation on Race & the Death Penalty
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...
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Save Ramiro
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...
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Ramiro Gonzales, An Exemplar of Rehabilitation, Has Been Executed
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...
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BREAKING: Texas Supplies its Execution Drugs from a Pharmacy That Has Been...
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...
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Texas’s Junk Science Law Systematically Fails to Provide Relief to Innocent...
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...
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Save Robert Roberson
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...
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John Grisham Asks if Texas Will Execute An Innocent Man
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...
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Standing Against Injustice
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...
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Do We Deserve To Kill?
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,...
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Please Call Governor Abbott & Tell Him to Save Robert Roberson
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...
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Robert Roberson’s Life Has Been Saved by Texas Legislators
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...
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