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Informative Death Penalty Links.
The links that follow are just a brief collection of informative websites by multiple organizations with information about the Death Penalty. Some are targeted towards Texas' execution system and include ways in which YOU can take action. Please visit them to gain more insight on this urgent issue and find out how you can help!!
Picture: Joseph E. Deering, Houston Chronicle
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Death Penalty Sites
Texas Moratorium Network
Site with most actions for citizens: Discussion Forum, Sample Letter to Legislator, City Council Packet, Online Petition, and much more!
Equal Justice USA
Contains: Moratorium Now! Organizing Packet, State by State Info, Sample Resolutions for TX, Failed Legislation, and more!
Texas Coalition to Abolish The Death Penalty
TCADP has gathered over 150 moratorium resolutions in the state and helped push moratorium legislation out of committee during the 2001 legislative session.
Texas' portion of the National Tally of Moratorium Endorsers
Provided by Equal Justice USA. Click to see which groups in the State have issued their support for a moratorium on executions!
The Houston Chronicle
A Special Report: Deadly Distinction, important info on death penalty in TX
Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
American Bar Association's (ABA) "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions, includes state by state profiles.
Death Penalty Information Center
Informative site: current news, issues, specifics on Texas' system, number executed, current legislations, and more!
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Contents: Offenders on Death Row, Scheduled Executions, Women on Death Row, intresting Death Row Facts..I encourage you to click on this one.
American Civil Liberties Union
Click here to take action by filling out a form electronically to "urge your Senators to support the National Death Penalty Act of 2003 (S. 132) to correct the flaws in the capital punishment system and prevent any additional executions from taking place until these problems are addressed."
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