Gloria Rubac

The death penalty in 2022

The new year began with Oklahoma legally lynching a severely mentally ill African American named Donald Grant. Killing someone with…

February 9, 2022

International Migrant Alliance report from the Texas/Mexico border

Last December a five-person delegation from the International Migrant Alliance-USA (IMA) traveled to Texas to work with the South Texas…

January 27, 2022

Solitary confinement on death row — a death before dying

“It is inhumane, and by its design it is driving men insane. Solitary confinement makes the criminal justice system the…

January 14, 2022

Exxon Locks Out Steelworkers at Beaumont, Texas, Refinery

Beaumont, Texas Nov. 13 — On May Day this year about 650 union workers, members of Steelworkers Local 13-243,  showed…

November 17, 2021

Changing racist name of prisons is ‘like putting lipstick on a pig’

Outrage over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 was immediate. This righteous anger took many forms,…

September 24, 2021

Happy Birthday, Juan Balderas!

A few days in advance of his 35th birthday, family, friends and supporters of Texas death row prisoner Juan Balderas…

September 10, 2021

‘Texas doesn’t give a damn about prisoners’ lives’

“I think it’s very stupid, even suicidal on their part, but at the same time, that’s how Texas prison industries…

August 16, 2021

Rodney Reed: Evidence of innocence finally heard

“Rodney [Reed] had a Jim Crow trial in a kangaroo court. There’s not a system of justice. This was a…

August 3, 2021

Federal Judge Rules DACA is illegal

In a slap in the face to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, a federal judge in Houston ruled July 16…

July 28, 2021

Arizona dispuesta a usar gas utilizado por nazis en las ejecuciones 

En Estados Unidos, donde el apoyo a las ejecuciones patrocinadas por el estado ha ido disminuyendo durante la última década,…

June 25, 2021