Jeff Wood - Innocent of Murder

On Texas' Death Row

    Friends and Fellow Abolition Groups

Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP)

 

Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP) works to end the death penalty through campaigns of public education and the promotion of youth activism. Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP) is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization formed in 2005 with the primary goal of mobilizing state-wide support for a moratorium on executions and/or abolition of the death penalty. To accomplish this goal, TSADP is engaged in various educational and outreach projects and works closely with other groups devoted to human rights and criminal justice reform, including other non-profit organizations, churches and synagogues, civic organizations and student groups. We believe that significant death penalty reform in Texas, including a moratorium on executions, is a viable goal if the public is educated on the death penalty system and is encouraged to contact their elected representatives to urge passage of moratorium legislation. 

 

Want to know more about TSADP?  Visit http://www.texasabolition.org/

 

 Kids Against the Death Penalty

Who We Are

Kids Against the Death Penalty (KADP) is an organization dedicated to ending the Death Penalty across the United States. Yes we are kids, but we know that Murder of ANY kind is wrong, and that includes state-sanctioned-murder! In order to accomplish the goal of country-wide abolition, we must unite with other anti-death penalty organizations in an effort to raise awareness, and to unite in strength and in numbers. We are the people, and if we stand in solidarity we can affect change!

 

Members of KADP believe that the death penalty is wrong for the following reasons:

•The bible says, “Thou shall NOT kill”. (That includes convicted murderers.) We need to show mercy to those who have wronged us, or mercy will not be shown to us by our heavenly father!

•The Death Penalty makes a Murderer of someone!

•The Death Penalty punishes the poor and underprivileged.

•The Death Penalty allows for the Murder of INNOCENT PEOPLE!!!

•The Death Penalty creates more victims!

•The Death Penalty is a Cruel and Unusual form of torture.

•The Death Penalty is NOT a deterrent to murder, or other violent crimes.

•The Death Penalty wastes tax-payers money!

 

Did You Know?????

The United States currently has more than 3,500 men and women who sit on death row?  A majority of these "victims" who are on death row are poor, and cannot and/or could not afford proper representation!  Many of them suffer from mental illness, or mental retardation.  Some did not commit the crime, but were sentenced to die under the Law of Parties; and will die for murders the judge and the juries know they did not commit! 

The Death penalty costs 4 times as much as housing an inmate for life!  The average death penalty cost (per offender) costs $1 million to $3 million dollars (and many go as high as $7 million dollars), while housing an inmate for life costs only about $500,000.  You do the math!

 

Please visit the KADP website @

 http://www.freewebs.com/kadp

 

 

Texas Moratorium Network

 


About Us
Texas Moratorium Network
3616 Far West Blvd, Suite 117, Box 251
Austin, Texas 78731

Phone: Voice Mail:               512 961 6389       
Scott Cobb               512 689 1544       

Email
admin@texasmoratorium.org



Texas Moratorium Network (TMN) is a grassroots, non-profit organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas. It has more than 20,000 members, about 85 percent of whom are in Texas with the rest in other U.S. states and in other countries. To accomplish its goal, TMN is engaged in various educational and outreach projects and works closely with other groups devoted to human rights and criminal justice reform, including other non-profit organizations, churches and synagogues, civic organizations and student groups. We believe that significant death penalty reform in Texas, including a moratorium on executions, is a viable goal if the public is educated on the death penalty system and is encouraged to contact their elected representatives to urge passage of moratorium legislation.

We hope that you will join us in this fight for fairness and social justice.

Please join our email list and become one of the more than 20,000 people receiving information through our network. You can also find us on MySpace, YouTube or read our blog.

Board of Directors

Scott Cobb, President, admin@texasmoratorium.org, Phone:               512 961-6389       

Alison Dieter, Vice-President

Delia Perez Meyer, Secretary
Delia is fighting to exonerate her brother, Louis Castro Perez, who is on death row in Texas.

Hooman Hedayati, President, Texas Students Against the Death Penalty

Crystal Caviel, Projects Director

Jeanette Popp was Chairperson of Texas Moratorium Network from 2001 to 2004. Jeanette's daughter Nancy was murdered in Austin in 1988. Jeanette became intimately familiar with the many flaws of the Texas criminal justice system after two innocent men were wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and spent 12 years in prison. They were exonerated and released in 2001. The real killer was convicted in October 2002. Jeanette succcessfuly pressured the District Attorney not to seek the death penalty for her daughter's murderer. Jeanette's riveting testimony in 2001 helped convince two Texas legislative committees to vote in favor of moratorium legislation. She frequently travels across the nation speaking out against the death penalty.


Texas Moratorium Network is organized as a 501 (c)(4) social welfare organization.

TMN is a non-profit organization registered with the Texas Secretary of State.

Donations to Texas Moratorium Network are not tax-deductible, because TMN's primary purpose is to lobby for a moratorium on executions.


 

This userpage was printed from Texas Moratorium Network
http://www.texasmoratorium.org

The URL for this userpage is:
http://www.texasmoratorium.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&page_id=16

 

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 Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing

...is an organization led by murder victim family members joined by death row family members, family members of the executed, the exonerated, and others with stories to tell, that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.

Journey Storytellers come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation. They are Real People who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder. They have Real Stories that recount their tragedies, and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues.

The Journey spotlights Real People with Real Stories. Some choose not to seek revenge, and instead select the path of love and compassion for all of humanity. Some see forgiveness as strength and as a way of healing. Others come by different paths. Listen to the Voices of Experience because all reject the Death Penalty as Bad Public Policy and believe.


 

Yes, America ... There is a Better Way
 
 
 
To find out more about the Journey of Hope please click the following link:
www.journeyofhope.org/pages/index.htm

 

Contact: Bill Pelke

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