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Cesar Chavez Day

Houston Residents here honored labor leader and United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez March 27 with a caravan through the…

April 2, 2021

Death penalty abolished in former Confederate state

Houston On March 23, I was sad and gloomy all day as I am every year on this date —…

March 30, 2021

Texas solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Books, tee shirts, and literature on the death penalty and the health of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were promoted at…

March 25, 2021

Free Rodney Reed!

Rodrick Reed stands beside Sandra Reed and Pam Perillo (above) at a rally held March 20 for Rodney Reed, an…

March 23, 2021

Solitary confinement abuse sparks hunger strike in Louisiana’s Angola Prison

Angola State Prison was the 18,000-acre Angola Plantation before the Civil War, named after the African country from which many…

March 3, 2021

Hungry, cold and victims of inhumanity behind Texas prison walls

Houston On an average day in Texas, prisons are hellholes run by racist officials and a Texas Department of Criminal…

February 22, 2021

Legal lynchings soar under Trump

In an unprecedented spree of executions, Donald Trump has executed 13 people in the last six months of his presidency.…

January 18, 2021

Prison officials’ crimes mount at Ramsey Unit in Texas

Houston “I just can’t take it anymore,” Michael Beck told other prisoners at the W. F. Ramsey Unit state prison,…

January 13, 2021

Death Row, Texas: A lonely birthday for innocent Rodney Reed 

Bastrop, Texas Rodney Reed’s family and supporters had a press conference and rallied outside the Bastrop County Courthouse, with its…

December 24, 2020

Scheduled federal executions infuriate activists

The outrage expressed by anti-death penalty activists was visceral as the news came out that Trump had authorized the federal…

December 9, 2020