The Dallas Morning News has two posts dealing with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and it's upcoming annual meeting in Fort Worth this weekend..
"If you see a crowd at the courthouse Friday, it’s those anti-death penalty people calling on the DA," is by Rodger Jones, amember of the editorial board.
This here is a public service announcement on an anti-death penalty observance taking place this weekend in North Texas. It kicks off with a press conference at the Dallas County criminal courthouse, at the office of District Attorney Craig Watkins.
As this newspaper has written before, Watkins, considering his race and background, has become the most unlikeliest of DA’s to lead the state — and probably the nation — in sending people to death row. (An editorial called it the county’s “dubious distinction.”)
Remember, Watkins’ great-grandfather was executed by Texas in 1932 and was buried in the prison cemetery in Huntsville. Watkins has expressed moral opposition to putting people to death, while acknowledging that it’s his sworn duty to uphold the law. Watkins also says there are racial undercurrents in the criminal justice system that can’t be denied.
"Three North Texans to protest death penalty in walk from Dallas to Fort Worth," is by Diane Jennings.
Three North Texas residents will walk from Dallas to Fort Worth Friday as part of a “faithful pilgrimage” to protest the death penalty.
Rev. Jeff Hood,a pastor in Denton, Rev. Wes Magruder of Plano, Chair of the Board of Church and Society for the United Methodist Church’s North Texas Conference and Lynn Walters, executive director of Hope for Peace and Justice, a Dallas non-profit, plan to walk from the district attorney’s office in Dallas to the district attorney’s office in Fort Worth.
The 35-mile pilgrimage,which will be held in conjunction with the annual Conference of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Saturday, was Hood’s idea. The pastor of a group called Prism in Denton, said when he moved to Texas, “I began to realize the faith community holds the key to overturning the death penalty.”
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