Damaging the Death Penalty
Brand Through Year-End Reports
A Report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Kristin Houlé
Executive Director, TCADP
Content of the Report
Death Sentences
* By county
° By race
* Rejections by death-qualified juries
¢ Resentences
Executions
* By race and gender
* By county
* Lethal injection developments
Stays of Execution/Dates Withdrawn
Reduced Sentences/Inmates No Longer on Death Row
Wrongful Convictions
Wrongful Executions
Other Case Developments
U.S. Supreme Court Developments
Legislative Developments
New Voices
Appendices: Executions & Death Sentences
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Legislature should seriously reconsider the death
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Human error cannot be eliminated from justice system
By Grant Jones and Sam Millsap December 13, 2012 Updated: December 13, 2012 7:10pm
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Report: Dallas County Issues State's Highest Rate Of Death Sentences
by: Pat Hernandez, December 30, 2013 2:12:00 pm
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Texas Still Leads Nation in Executions
New death sentences continue to decline & exonerations keep coming
BY JORDAN SMITH, 1:07PM, TUE. DEC. 18, 2012
Only nine new death sentences were handed out in
Texas this year, a 76% decline since 2002, according
to the annual report from the Texas Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty.
~ THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Death Row Population at Its Lowest Since 1989
by Brandi Grissom | December 12,2012 | 2 Comments
StarTelegram
Hope and concern on death penalty, exonerations
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012
Death Row Population
Drops to Lowest Level
Since 1989
TEXAS EXECUTED 15 PEOPLE IN 2012 AND SENT ONLY NINE NEW INMATES TO
DEATH ROW.
by SONIA SMITH FRI DECEMBER 14, 2012 10:56 PM
Report: Death penalty applied haphazardly in Texas
by Peter Malof, Texas News Service | Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:59 am
AUSTIN, Texas - While the use of capital punishment is declining, Texas still relies on it more than any other state - and implements it
haphazardly, according to a report released today.
Striking variations exist between counties about how often prosecutors seck the death penalty, says report author Kristin Houle, executive director
of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. For example, in the past year, more than half the state's new death sentences were handed
down in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. By contrast, there were no new death sentences in Houston.
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