Contact the members of the two committees in the Texas House and Senate who will be hearing moratorium legislation soon. Ask them to enact a temporary, two year moratorium on executions and to create a commission to study the death penalty in Texas. Let them know that Texas may have executed three innocent people: Ruben Cantu, Cameron Todd Willingham and Carlos De Luna. A moratorium will help prevent more innocent people from being executed in Texas. Tell them that a moratorium is a top priority for you, because if a moratorium is not enacted this year, another innocent person could be executed. Tell them that a moratorium has been endorsed by most of the major newspaper editorial boards in Texas.
While executions have slowed in other states, the torrid pace continues in Texas. So far in 2007, there have been five executions in the U.S. and four of them were in Texas. Through March, there are seven more executions scheduled in the U.S. and six of them are in Texas.
Criminal Justice Committees in 80th Texas Legislature
House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee:
| Name | Party | District | Counties | Phone |
| Aaron Pena (Chair) email Pena |
D | 40 | Hildago-part | 512-463-0426 |
| Allen Vaught (Vice) email Vaught |
D | 107 | Dallas-part | 512-463-0244 |
| Debbie Riddle email Riddle |
R | 150 | Harris-part | 512-463-0572 |
| Juan Escobar email Escobar |
D | 43 | Jim Hogg, Brooks, Kenedy, Willacy, Cameron-part | 512-463-0666 |
| Terri Hodge email Hodge |
D | 100 | Dallas-part | 512-463-0586 |
| Barbara Mallory Caraway email Mallory Caraway |
D | 110 | Dallas-part | 512-463-0664 |
| Paul Moreno email Moreno |
D | 77 | El Paso-part | 512-463-0638 |
| Paula Hightower Pierson email Pierson |
D | 93 | Tarrant-part | 512-463-0562 |
| Robert Talton email Talton |
R | 144 | Harris-part | 512-463-0460 |
Senate Criminal Justice Committee:
| Name | Party | Dist | Counties | Phone |
| John Whitmire (Chair) email Whitmire |
D | 15 | Harris-part | 512-463-0115 |
| Kel Seliger (Vice) email Seliger |
R | 31 | Andrews, Bailey, Cochran, Crane, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Howard, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Martin,Midland,Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Yoakum | 512-463-0131 |
| John Carona email Corona |
R | 16 | Dallas-part | 512-463-0116 |
| Bob Duell email Duell |
R | 2 | Dallas-part, Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Smith-part, Van Zandt | 512-463-0102 |
| Rodney Ellis email Ellis |
D | 13 | Fort Bend-part, Harris –part | 512-463-0113 |
| Glenn Hegar email Hegar |
R | 18 | Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Fort Bend-part, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria,
Waller, Washington, Wharton |
512-463-0118 |
| Juan Hinojosa email Hinojosa |
D | 20 | Brooks, Hidalgo-part, Jim Wells, Nueces | 512-463-0120 |
