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Before Six
The Gallup poll recorded the lowest level of support for the death penalty in 40 years,based on its recent survey.
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center. A statewide coalition working to repeal the death penalty
1st teaser from the documentary “Daddy's Glass House" is now available HERE
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IMMINENT EXECUTIONS
Nov 12 TX Jamie McCoskey
Nov 12 FL Darius Kimbrough
Nov 14 OH Ronald Phillips
Nov 20 MO Joseph Franklin
Dec 3 TX Jerry Martin (Vol)
Dec 3 FL Askari Muhammad
Dec 10 OK Ronald Lott
INTRODUCTION
We are a group of prisoners that seek to unite the death row community to bring about change for everyone caged here on Texas Death Row. Due to the ever worsening deplorable environment of Texas Death Row we have no choice but to push forward and initiate change in the conditions.
Through DRIVE we have organized a group of passionate prisoner activists who have put aside all minor barriers of ethnicity, creed, color and beliefs, to focus on the injustices forced upon us by this system. By means of inner-resistance, organizing, outer petitions drives, protests and direct actions, we will solidify our stance and remain relentless in the fight against oppression!
Until Humanitarian conditions are implemented and Freedom and true Justice is achieved, DRIVE will continue to be an uncompromising force in the Struggle!
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Watch Robert Will and Reginald Blanton conducting non-violent direct actions to protest against the Death Penalty and TDCJ's oppressive conditions inside Texas Death Row
LATEST NEWS
Nov. 13 Petra de Jong's Open Letter to Gov. Rick Perry and
KPFT News interview with Gloria Rubac and Petra de
Jong explaining Jamie McCoskey's reasons to give up
his last appeals.
Nov. 11 Kenneth Foster has been transfered to Hughes Unit.
His new contact details are: Kenneth Foster
#1451768, Hughes Unit, Route 2, Box 4400,
Gatesville, TX 76597, USA.
Nov. 11 Death row survivors, families & activists march for
abolition By Gloria Rubac
Oct. 07 The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties
Produce Most Death Cases
Aug 22 We need your help to Save the Life of Robert Garza!
Texas DR Prisoner convicted under the unjust Law of
Parties.
June 17 The Abolition Movement bus will leave from the
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center at 2:00 pm on June
26th to protest the 500th execution in Texas. Bus
tickets are $10.00. E-mail Abolition.Movement to
reserve your seat now! We understand that a bus
will also be coming from the Peace Center in Dallas.
Woman will be 500th execution since Texas
resumed death penalty
April 17 Exoneree Detectives Fight For Those Still Behind
Bars
April 16 Execution Watch: Ronnie Paul Threadgill 4/16
April 8 Christoph Gielen Goes Up In The Air, Shares a Broad
Perspective On Solitary Confinement & 53 Mexicans Sit
on Death Row in U.S.
March 15 Maryland about to become the 18th state without
the death penalty.
Feb 08 Introduction of Kenneth Foster Jr. new documentary
"Daddy's Glass House" by Samantha Thornhill and
Derek Jones
Jan 16 NEW BOOK: Executing Democracy: Capital
Punishment & the Making of America.
Dec 14 Maryland's governor O'Malley reaffirmed his support
for death penalty repeal! Read the big news and
support the NCADP actions Here
Dec 13 Death Row Population at Its Lowest Since 1989
Dec 12 New animated short film "The Last 40 Miles". Check
out the trailer Here
Dec. 11 Could Manuel Velez be the 13th Prisoner Exonerated
from Texas’s Death Row?
Dec. 10 DRIVE comrade Christopher Young was moved to
Bexar County Adult Detention Center. Click here to
read the details about his new address.
Dec. 6 Cathy Henderson Granted New Trial. CCA gives Travis
County defendant a second chance
Nov. 29 Video: Werner Herzog meets Hank Skinner
Nov. 16 Statement from Attorney for Hank Skinner in
Response to Initial DNA Test Results in Hank Skinner
Case/ Texas Executed Ramón Hernández and
Preston Hughes
Nov. 14 Execution Watch: Ramón Hernández and Nov. 15
Preston Hughes.
Nov 8 Execution Watch: Mario Swain
Oct 31 Execution Watch: Donnie Lee Roberts
Oct 30 Tomorrow, October 31st, protest Rick Perry's 250th
execution in Hoston, Texas!
Oct 29 13th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty &
Death Penalty News 10/26/2012 (video)
Oct 26 Texas juries sent just six people to death row in FY
2011 & Moving on From West Memphis: Freed from
death row, Damien Echols reflects on where to go
next
Oct 25 Today "Make Communities Safer by Abolishing the
Death Penalty" Online Conference 11 am Pacific, 2 pm
Eastern & Willingham's Family Seeks "Posthumous
Pardon"
Oct 24 Execution Watch: Bobby Hines
Oct 21 Executed At 14: George Stinney’s Birthday Reminds
Us That The Death Penalty Must End
Oct 19 Stay of Execution granted to Anthony Haynes
Oct 10 Today, World Day Against the Death Penalty
Oct 8 USA: Clemency urged for Texas man facing execution
for crime as teenager
Oct 4 Rodney Reed's appeal has been denied. Read what
what you can do to help here.
Oct 2 DNA evidence exonerates 300th prisoner nationwide
Sep 28 Panel: There are countless other Troy Davises
BREAKING NEWS: Damon Thibodeaux exonerated
in Louisiana and freed from death row today.
Sep 27 Sarge Foster, Presente! By Gloria Rubac
Sep 26 Death row inmate, Preston Hughes, contests
the lethal drug in Texas
Sep 25 Execution Watch: Cleve Foster. This is Texas' fourth
attempt to put to death the former Army recruiter
who has consistently claimed innocence of the murder
for which he was condemned.
Sep 22 Troy Davis One Year Later: Execution Fuels National
Movement to Abolish Death Penalty
Sep 20 Execution Watch: Texas plans to execute Robert
Harris today
Sep 19 With A number Of Texas Executions Scheduled, Does
Capital Punishment Serve Its Purpose?
Sep 18 The Living Dead: HuffPost Live Talks To Exonerated
Death Row Inmate Anthony Graves
Sep 2 Turns out THIS is who's eating your tax dollars (vid)
Aug 30 Texas Death Row's Health Crisis by Charles Chucky
Mamou
Aug 29 Breaking News: Texas Death Row Inmate Anthony
Pierce to Be Re-Sentenced to Life
Aug 28 Mumia flies change to life imprisonment sentence &
The Living Death of Solitary Confinement
Aug 23 Court gives Balentine last-hour reprieve
Aug 22 Execution Watch: John Balentine & Last Meals On
Death Row Given Out Of Guilt Or Goodwill? (VIDEO)
Aug 17 250th Execution Under Rick Perry is Set for
Halloween, October 31, 2012
Aug 16 Judge Signals Intent to Rule Against Condemned
Inmate
Aug 15 Supreme Court Outlawed Executing Mentally
Retarded, But Texas Does It Anyway & Medical
Examiner: Testimony Misconstrued in Rodney Reed
Case
Aug 13 IACHR Calls on a Moratorium in the Application of the
Death Penalty & Death-penalty cases waste a lot of
taxpayers' money & The search for a humane way to
kill
Aug 10 Petition to restore media access at SHU Pelican Bay
& Death row off table in Texas Syndicate case &
Death Penalty By Country & Recent academic
writing on actual innocence & Inquirer Editorial:
Can't justify this execution
Aug 7 Execution Watch: No one disagrees that Marvin
Wilson meets widely accepted criteria for mental
retardation. No one disagrees the Supreme Court
has declared unconstitutional the execution of people
who are mentally retarded. But Texas plans to put
Wilson to death Tuesday. Unless there's a stay,
Execution Watch will broadcast.
Aug 6 Texas set to execute death row inmate diagnosed
as 'mentally retarded'
July 19 Texas executes mentally impaired inmate with animal
drugs & Saturday 21: Examining the California SAFE
Act Featuring California death row prisoner Kevin
Cooper
June 28 Supreme Court says states may not impose
mandatory life sentences on juvenile murderers and
its implications in Texas: SCOTUS ruling leaves 17
year old capital murderers in sentencing limbo
June 23 Video Interview: From Death Row to Exoneration:
Fmr. Texas Prisoner Anthony Graves on Surviving
Solitary Confinement & Rick Perry Could Reach 250
Executions by End of 2012
June 21 An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at
Supermax & Solitary confinement 'is driving men
insane, exonerated convict testifies & An Innocent
Man’s Tortured Days on Texas’s Death Row & Rodney
Reed: Another Innocent Man on Texas Death Row?
June 15 2 death row inmates win new punishment trials &
Death Sentence Thrown Out in 2005 Murder Case
June 14 He did not walk to his own murder: Reg Blanton's
last use of force & Celebrate Juneteenth Sat w/
Abolition Movement
June 13 Both Sides in Skinner Case Ask Court for DNA Test &
Video: Shift in public opinion over death penalty
June 12 Texas Democratic Party Adopts Platform In Favor of
Repealing the Death Penalty
June 8 DNA Testing Granted in Skinner's Case. It took more
than a decade, but Skinner wins fight to test
evidence & Death penalty debate: Yes or no on the
SAFE California Act? & FDA Goes to Court to Secure
Drugs for Lethal Injections
May 30 Three Percent of US Executions Since 1900 Were
Botched, Study Finds & Meet the Exonerated by
David Protess & Missouri to switch from three-drug
method to only one (propofol) & Cathy Lynn on
Texas Death Row could get a new trial & Recent
exonerations reducing the death penalties
May 15 Steven Staley Execution Halted by Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals & Carlos De Luna Execution: Texas
Put To Death An Innocent Man, Columbia University
Team Says también en español: El falso Carlos, un
ejecutado por error
May 13 Texas wants to drug mentally ill Steven Staley to
execute him on Wednesday
May 11 Read HERE a copy of the pleading filed by Thomas
Whitaker, Tony Ford, Christopher Wilkins, Willie
Trottie and Jamie McCoskey against Rick Perry, the
members of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice &
John Whitmire for ABUSIVE LIVING CONDITIONS on
Texas Death Row. Read HERE Thomas Whitaker
blog motivating this action
May 5 Death Row Inmates Sue Texas Governor Rick Perry
For Abusive Conditions
May 4 Anthony Bartee's execution halted & CCA heard
arguments for Hank Skinner decade-old request for
biological analysis of crime scene evidence: Texas
grilled over Death Row inmate's decade-long push for
DNA testing & Former death row inmate and author
Kerry Max Cook Seeks Hearing on Murder Evidence
May 2 Execution Watch: Anthony Bartee excheduled to
execution despite untested DNA evidence
concerned by inmate’s shaking at execution
April 26 Appeals court lifts court order stopping ETX man's
execution
April 25 Beunka Adamas won reprieve
April 24 The Texas Death Row Occupy Movement by Tony E.
Ford & It seems California we'll be voting to repeal
the death penalty this November
April 21 Major Protest and Civil Disobedience Planned at the
U.S. Department of Justice: April 24, 2012, 11:00 am,
Washington, DC & Racial bias in the death penalty:
A Case for Statistics and a Victory for Justice
April 18 Court to rule if condemned Houston killer is sane &
Rodriguez appeal to resume in June & The Dred
Scott of Our Time. Also The Outer Limits of Solitary
Confinement video of the public forum held at UC
Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco on
April 6, 2012
April 13 New Video for Robert Will
April 12 Time to end death penalty in Texas by Bob Ray
Sanders & Connecticut Votes to Replace the Death
Penalty with Life in Solitary Confinement by James
Ridgeway and Jean Casella
April 4 TO MY BRETHREN & SISTAS ON THE 'ROW by Mumia
Abu-Jamal & Prisonhouse of Nations-- How the
Neoconservatives Made the USA the Biggest Jailer in
History and What Can Be Done About It by Richard D.
Vogel & Can Food Be Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
by Adam Cohen & DNA and the Death Penalty
April 1 Death row inmate's effort to spare live gains
momentum By Mike Tolson an article about Rob Will's
case
March 30 Prison system appears to have bought $50,000 in
execution drug last year
March 29 TDCJ is reaching higer levels of absurdity while
loosing lethal drug suppliers: Texas
accuses anti-death penalty charity Reprieve of
fomenting violence. A response to Texas' charge of
'intimidation' against Reprieve. Amnesty Report on
the death penalty: The US #5 in the global
execution rank.
March 27 List of the 45 people killed with pentobarbital As of
March 19, 2012 in the US
March 22 Martinez v. Ryan, Coments in: DP9, NMiss,
Sentencing Law and Order, The Stand Down Texas
Project, NO Martinez v. Ryan in Texas
March 12 Article about Rob Will in the New York Times "Appeal
of Death Row Case Is More Than a Matter of Guilt or
Innocence" by Brandi Grissom
Feb 01 New legal update for Rob Will
Jan 26 Motion Denied for Rob Will. His case is now facing the
5th Circuit with NO lawyer.
Sep 24 Interview with Christopher Young by CEDP
July 27 58 Days to Live by Steven Woods
July 17 78 Days to Live: Death 101 and 63 Days to live by
Steven Woods
June 27 85 Days to Live: Challenging the Protocol by Steven
Woods
June 23 89 Days to Live by Steven Woods
June 22 One Hundred days to live: a blog by Steven
Woods now on the DRIVE site
June 16 News bout prison activist and DRIVE supporter
Jerome Coffey, PA
June 14 The protest continues part 2 by Chris Young and
Interview with Chris Young by Andy Canales
May 28 Refusing To Give In To Oppression and Changer les
conditions carcérales de l'extérieur by Rob Will
Watch Angie Agapetus, Gloria Rubac, and Regina
Guidry of the Abolition Movement talking about Texas
death row living conditions
May 27 Designing a Theater Of Resistance: Preliminary Steps
new protest update by Rob Will
May 24 Changing Prison Conditions from the Outside by Rob
Will "ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED" Read the petitions
made by death row prisoners to prison staff and
know the reasons behind their protests. Stand in
Solidarity with Death Row prisoners. Check our letter
campaign in support DR prisoners.
May 19 Protest Update from March 21 to April 8, 2011 by
Chris Young
April 30 Protest Update 2.25.11 by Rob Will and James
Broadnax
April 28 Why a Hunger Strike on Texas Death Row?
A message for the Abolition Movement
April 22 The Protest Begins! By Chris Young, Solidarity Fast
by Rob Will and 1-15-11 Update by Rob Will
April 11 The Abuse of Authority. The reason I haven't seen
my moom in nearly two years by Chris Young
Feb 11 On the Records: Case Open, File Closed
Feb 10 Braking News: DRIVE comrade Robert Will will have a
Court Hearing on March 30th, 2010. His support group
needs urgent help. Find detailed information here
Feb 03 A bittersweet Victory in Texas
Feb 02 Breaking News: Gabriel Gonzalez death sentence has
been commuted to life WITH the possibility of parole!
Jan 26 Ms. Smith Evil, Continues by Rob Will
Jan 14 Death penalty changes spur optimism
Jan 13 Torture In Your Own Backyard
Jan 9 Texas Keeps Retarded Men on Death Row
Jan 4 Danielle Simpson's Execution Date by Robert Will
Jan 4 Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work
Jan 4 Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of
Leading Criminologists
Jan 4 The big bluff: Do prosecutors threaten death penalty to
get guilty pleas?
Dec 27 A Tear and a Smile poem by Chris Young
Dec 21 DPIC "The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report"
Dec 21 Crazy Mike (Gerald Elderidge) by Robert Will
Dec 11 The cruelty of death row. In the US, murderers are
executed -so it's odd that Americans think their justice
system is superior to all others
Dec 09 Video interview with Rob Will as a contributor of the
book Upon this Chessboard of Nights and Days
Dec 05 Interview with Christopher Young by Ray Jasper
Dec 05 Battle of Opinions: What Is the Future of the Death
Penalty?
Dec 04 Texas executes low-IQ convicted killer
Dec 03 Inmate With Low I.Q. Nears Execution
Dec 02 Learn how the appeals system for capital cases works
(fails) in Texas An Interactive page created by Chuck
Lindel & Roberto Villalpando
Dec 01 The Demise of the Death Penalty in the USA: The
Politics of Capital Punishment and the Question of
Innocence by Richard Vogel
Nov 29 Texas sends fewer to death row. Life without parole
option cited among reasons for drop
Nov 27 Death row's condemned prisoners speak mostly of
love - not regret
Nov 27 The Case of Bobby Woods
Nov 24 Organizing the fight against executions
Nov 20 Texas man executed after clemency denied
Nov 20 Perry Rejects Clemency for Robert Lee Thompson
Nov 19 Texas Parole Board Urges Clemency For Death Row
Inmate
Nov 19 Texas executes inmate who claimed time on death
row was torture
Nov 19 Grits for Breakfast: ACLU: CCA ignored evidence of
fals confession in capital case
Nov 18 Texas Death Row Inmate Gets Last Minute Reprieve
Nov 18 Texas death row inmate wins new punishment
Nov 17 Ohio Is First to Change to One Drug in Executions
Nov 16 Texans too quiet about their state’s broken justice
system
Nov 16 Texas death row man claims inmates' numbered days
are form of torture
Nov 16 Grits for Breakfast -TDCJ on recording death row
visits: Policy? What policy?
Nov 16 If You Hire an Attorney, You Won't be Sentenced to
Death
Nov 16 Death sentences have dropped sharply after life
without parole became possible -in Texas-
Nov 16 Column - Dave Atwood: Execution system unjust in
Texas
Nov 12 Court weighs Texas death row inmate's sanity claim
Nov 11 Cuban man executed for Houston slaying
Nov 09 Texas resists family's effort to clear executed man's
name
Nov 08 Black Homophobia by Rob Will
Nov 06 Ms. Smith's Apologists by Rob Will
Nov 05 US lawmaker pushes death penalty appeals overhaul
Nov 04 Reg was Executed Yesterday by Rob Will
Nov 04 The Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man Less
Scandalous Than an Affair?
Nov 03 The Dark Lord Cheney: Destroyer of the Blues
(written 8-30-09) by Rob Will
Nov 03 Juan Melendez - Innocent, Exonerated Former Death
Row Prisoner to Tour Texas Nov. 9-18
Nov 03 Death Man Talking BBC Interview with John
Thompson exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s
Death Row
Nov 02 Texas March Spotlights Executions by Laura Brady
Nov 02 3 Death Row Inmates lose at Supreme Court
Nov 01 A cleregyman's transsgration and a prisoner's
treachery (writen 9-26-09) and Steve Moody poem
by Robert Will
Nov 01 Germany Pases a Resolution Demanding a New Trial
for Mumia
Oct 29 Biblical Punishment for Khristian Oliver. Contact Board
of Pardons & Parols and urge clemency for Khristian
Oct 29 Exonerated inmates protest Texas death penalty
system
Oct 28 Activists call for execution freeze. Protestors present
death penalty moratorium petition to governor
Oct 27 Protest Texas plan to execute Reg Blanton! Tusday,
October 27th,5.30 PM, Texas State Capitol
Oct 27 Reg Blanton's case on Democracy Now! Guests
included Reg’s brother & Austin CEDP member Carter
Pagel
Oct 25 Is Texas Going to Execute an Innocent man? Reggie
Blanton May be put to death in Texas Tues Oct 27th
Oct 23 Abolish the death penalty today! Mark Clements on
Reg Blanton's case
Oct 23 Solidarity Call for Reg by Rob Will
Oct 23 Death Row Inmates in Texas Tell Their Stories in
New Book
Oct 23 New Message from Texas Moratorium Network
Oct 22 Cognitive Capability and the Death Penalty
(written 28-08-09) by Rob Will
Oct 22 March against the death penalty
Oct 22 Ending death penalty could save US millions: study
Oct 21 Kenneth Mosley looses Supreme Court appeal
Oct 20 Medusa Lives!, The Most Perfidious Ms. Smith Strikes
Again & Medusa's Omen by Rob Will
Oct 20 Steve Moody Will Be Murdered In Three Days (written
9-16-09) & Steve Moody’s Murder (written 9-13-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 19 Perry uses clemency sparingly on death row
Oct 19 Review death penalty law, ex-governor urges
Oct 18 Todd Willingham's Defense Lawyer Embarrasses Texas
Justice System on National TV; Juror Has Doubts
Oct 18 Never Thought to Read (written: 8-8-09) by Rob Will
Oct 18 Another DNA Exoneration (written 8-14-09) by Rob Will
Oct 16 The Troy Davis Supreme Court Ruling (writen 8-22-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 15 Texas Moratorium Network's message. Update on Tod
Willingham and the 10th March to Abolish the Death
Penalty
Oct 15 A Lifestyle of Action (written 8-3-09) by Rob Will
Oct 13 Message from Reg Blanton
Oct 13 Sonia Sotomayor (written 8/11-12/09) by Rob Will
Oct 12 Innocent Until Proven Dead Carter Pagel, a CEDP
member documents the long list of injustices suffered
by Reginald Blanton.
Oct 12 Department of Justice Condemns Harris County Jail
(written 8-19-09) by Rob Will
Oct 12 Perry's office quiet on expert's arson report
Oct 12 Europeans press the US to end the death penalty
Oct 11 Noise Pollution (written 8-6-09) by Rob Will
Oct 10 Statement for October 10th Rally in San Antonio, TX
by Reginald Blanton
Oct 10 EU says Texas, Nation Should End Executions
Oct 10 Relative Definition of Torture (written 8-15-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 08 Smaller Than An Animal's Cage (written 7-23-09) by
Rob Will
Oct 07 What is the Matter With Texas DAs? (Written 8-17-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 07 Courts examine Ohio's lethal-injection procedures
Governor issues 5-month reprieves
Oct 06 Reginald Blanton Received An Execution Date & Reg’s
Execution Date Only Two Months Away (Date written:
7-24-09 and 8-25-09 respectively ) by Rob Will
Oct 06 Visit Robert Will's new blog Live from Death Row
Oct 03 Resolution asks Council to eliminate death penalty &
Botched Executions
Oct 02 8.30.09 by Kenneth Foster
Oct 02 Shake-up in Texas execution probe draws criticism,
questions
Oct 01 Perry Removes 3 From Wrongful Execution Panel
Sep 28 Watch Reginald Blanton's mother, Anna Terrell
delivering a powerful plea for the life of her son at
a rally at the Texas Capitol on Sept 26, 2009.
Sep 21 Statement for August 17th rally in San Antonio TX
by Reg Blanton
Sep 21 8.30.09 Journal Update by Kenneth Foster
Sep 21 Governor Rick Perry defends execution of Corsicana
man some experts say was innocent
Sep 21 Chronology of A Failed Execution
Sep 18 Ohio Inmate Traumatized after Failed Execution and
Second-try Execution is 'cruel,' suit to say
Sep 16 Urge Gov. Perry to halt Reg Blanton's Execution
Sep 13 Urge Gov. Perry to Acknowledge that Todd Willingham
was Innocent
Sep 11 Another Reason to Abolish the Death Penalty from
Worker's World
Sep 04 Ex-Texas death row inmate freed
Sep 02 Texas Justice: Where Wrongful Convictions are the
norm by Desiree Evans
Aug 26 Interview with Reginald Blanton by Chris Young
Aug 16 My Brother Reginald Blanton by Chris Young
Aug 14 Join the 10th Annual March to Stop Executions! Open
letter from Dalia Perez
Aug 13 "I'm tired of being imprisoned in a system that's
devaluated, and struggling to survive under the cruel
and unusual punishment of an unjust institution..."
Aug 6 New Message from Reginald Blanton
Aug 5 Interview with Sandie and with Chris Young by
Christopher Young
July 29 Death Salivates by Reg Blanton and Reginald Blanton
and the Kangaroo Court by Dee
July 19 Austin's CEDP condemns the execution date recently
given to Reginald Blanton
Occupy 4 Prisoners
The fight
goes on!
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