Texas Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty

Join our friends from TCADP this Saturday, June 27, 2026, from 10AM to 12PM at Redefined Coffee in Grapevine (200 W Northwest Hwy, Grapevine, TX 76051) to talk about the latest developments in capital punishment. Hope to see you there!

Sign up for a webinar on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 12:00 to mark the 50th anniversary of Jurek v. Texas, the landmark SCOTUS case that upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas in 1976. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4_tZ5Q36udPxngGYdlFXw1fgS2mqnHQAJ_DWHwAi9N5cKrw/viewform

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to consider the petition of Charles Don Flores, who has spent more than 25 years on death row in Texas for a crime he did not commit. His conviction was tainted by hypnotically influenced eyewitness testimony - testimony that is now prohibited by state law.

Flores asked the Justices to compel the Texas Court or Criminal Appeals to provide him with a meaningful opportunity to present the evidence of his innocence.

Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s hypnosis appeal Charles Flores argued that his conviction was improperly based on testimony from a witness who changed her recollection after hypnosis by an investigator.

Charles Flores wants to use Texas’ “junk science” law to appeal his conviction, saying it was improperly based on testimony from a neighbor who was hypnotized by police.

Texas death row inmate seeks to challenge hypnotized witness

After half-century on death row, Houston man gets life Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 48 years, yet his ex*****on was never carried out. Jordan, now 70, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe Williams.

"Before the state takes a life, they should be required to answer a simple, foundational question: Did they get the right person? In this case, Tennessee is refusing to find out. Regardless of where you land on the death penalty, that should stop you in your tracks."

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Our new op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman: Texas’ 600th ex*****on demands a reckoning on death penalty (gifted article)

Texas’ 600th ex*****on demands a reckoning on death penalty | Opinion Edward Busby’s ex*****on underscores the arbitrariness, cost and moral failures of Texas’ death penalty system, Nan Tolson writes.