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Huntsville, Texas: As FIRE arrives in Texas, members of our delegation joined demonstration by the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement as the state murdered death-row prisoner Danny Bible, June 27, 2018.
Via Fight for Im/migrants & Refugees Everywhere @Fight4Migrants on Twitter
By Lucha Rodriguez
Fact: Jeff Wood is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on Aug. 24.
Fact: Jeff Wood has never killed anyone and didn’t know a murder was going to take place.
Fact: Jeff Wood was in his car when his friend went into a convenience store and murdered the clerk.
Fact: Texas already executed the killer, Daniel Reneau, in 2002. Reneau admitted he was the killer.
Jeff Wood’s supporters gathered July 23 at the Texas Governor’s Mansion in Austin to demand Wood’s Aug. 24 execution be stopped. Speaker after speaker demanded that Gov. Greg Abbott grant a stay of execution immediately. A large presence of state police surrounded the mansion and the rally, but the governor did not make an appearance.
Wood was charged with capital murder under Texas’ “law of parties.” That part of the state penal code holds that a person can be charged with a crime he or she didn’t commit if he or she helped or “should have anticipated it as a result” of another crime, like a robbery. Based on law, Wood was sentenced to death.
Gloria Rubac, a leader in the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, brought three carloads of people to the rally. She explained that at this point in time the death penalty is on its way out: “Juries are not sentencing but a few people to death, executions are slowing to a crawl, execution drugs are no longer available, and more innocent people are being freed from death row.”
Rubac added, “Only in Texas is the state going full steam ahead. Jeff Wood must not be executed on Aug. 24 or ever. We stopped Jeff’s execution in 2008, and we’re going to stop it again! The whole system is broken, and we must shut it down!”
Houston, Texas: Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement speak-out featuring Pam Africa of International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. At the March Against the Death Penalty, October 25, 2014.
Photos by Sandra Joy
Houston, Texas: 15th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty
Texas: Protesters gather in support of death row inmate Rodney Reed
BASTROP — Family and friends of Rodney Reed gathered Monday morning on the lawn of the Bastrop County Courthouse to present county officials with a petition with more than 10,000 signatures supporting Reed’s claim of innocence in a 1996 murder case that shook the city.
Reed was convicted and sentenced to death in 1998 for the rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, but defense lawyers have managed to keep his case alive with a series of energetic appeals.
“The truth keeps us all strong, as well as believing that justice will prevail,” Sandra Reed said before leading the group into the courthouse to present the petition to Bastrop County District Attorney Bryan Goertz.
"Today is Mumia Abu-Jamal's B-Day. Happy 60th Birthday, Mumia!
"Celebrate in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, April 27, from 5-7pm at SHAPE Center, 3903 Almeda Rd."
Via Gloria Rubac / Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - Houston, Texas
Next Tuesday marks the first time since 2005 that the state of Texas is scheduled to execute a woman. Kimberly McCarthy was convicted of murder in 1997. A local anti-death penalty group is still fighting to get her off death row.
At the S.H.A.P.E Community Center in the Third Ward, the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement called for a commutation of the execution of a Dallas area woman — Kimberly McCarthy. McCarthy was convicted in 1997 of brutally murdering and robbing her neighbor, 71-year-old Dorothy Booth, to buy crack cocaine.
Gloria Rubac with the Abolition Movement says things went downhill for the former nursing home therapist when she became addicted to drugs in the 1990s.
“Crack cocaine causes changes in your brain. It’s a disease, well, any addiction like that is a disease. It caused her to do something that she never would have done if she had not been addicted to drugs.”
Rubac says instead of executing people with drug problems, the state should treat them for their addictions.
