H.B. 215 is still waiting to be heard in front of the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. Until then we will take look at one of the key players in this debate… Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty(TCADP) is a well known professionally staffed grassroots advocacy organization that focuses on ending…

Twenty years ago, 48 capital cases in Texas resulted in a death penalty conviction (The Texas Tribune, 2020). This period of time was when the state did not recognize life without the possibility of parole as an option for the convicted. It was either life with parole in 40 years…

H.B. 215 relates to abolishing the death penalty in Texas and was filed on November 9, 2020 by House Representative, Joe Moody (Texas House of Representatives, n.d.). If passed, this would be the first major shift in the state’s long history of upholding capital punishment. Currently the bill has support…

The death penalty has a long history in Texas, dating back to the first execution by hanging in 1819. Since then, Texas has continued to support capital punishment by evolving from the electric chair in 1923 to lethal injection in 1977 (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, n.d.). According to organizer…