"By ending state-sanctioned killing, in the future when a jury makes a mistake, resurrection won't be required to remedy it."
Before his execution, Todd Willingham said,“Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.” On October 30 at 2 PM, hundreds of people joined the fight by attending the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty at the Texas Capitol in Austin.
Thank you to the hundreds of people who attended the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. We had an amazing day!
"This is fast becoming one of the biggest anti-death penalty events in the country. I'll be there", said death row exoneree Ron Keine.
Each October since 2000, people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas, the U.S. and other countries have taken a day out of their year and gathered in Austin to raise their voices together and loudly express their opposition to the death penalty. The march is a coming together of activists, family members of people on death row, community leaders, exonerated prisoners and all those calling for repeal of the Texas death penalty.
We were joined in 2010 by the Journey of Hope, which 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.
The annual march is organized as a joint project by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations: Texas Moratorium Network, the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, Texas Students Against the Death Penalty, Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center, Death Penalty Free Austin, and Kids Against the Death Penalty.
