1 pm - Gather at Republic Park (4th and Guadalupe)

2 pm - March to the Supreme Court/Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Complex (Stopping by Governor's Mansion)

3:00 pm - Rally at the Supreme Court/CCA Building

Post-march party at 1311 E. 13th St

If you have a loved one on Death Row in Texas, then please contact us, because we would like to give you a chance to make a statement at the march on behalf of your loved one. If you are a family member of a murder victim and you oppose the death penalty, we would also like to invite you to address the march.

Speakers:

• Walter Long (nationally known expert on juvenile offender issue, represented Napoleon Beazley and Karla Faye Tucker among others)
• Michael Bingham , one of the group of students from the University of St Thomas innocence class who have been instrumental in investigating the case of Anthony Graves, who may soon be released from Death Row based on their investigation.
• Monique Matthews, sister of Ryan Matthews, who in 2004 became the 116th person released and exonerated from Death Row in the U.S.
• Delia Perez-Meyer (sister of innocent death row inmate Louis Castro Perez)
• Lee Bolton - (innocent, juvenile death row inmate Nanon Williams' Mother)
• Jeannine Scott (Wife of Michael Scott, wrongfully convicted from the Yogurt Shop case)
• Jeanette Popp (Mother of murder victim)
• Mary Kay Sicola (direct appeal attorney for Death Row inmate Robert Springsteen)
• Letty Gonzales (sister of Andrew Flores who was executed in Sept in Huntsville)
• Sr. Elizabeth Riebschlaeger of Charity of the Incarnate Word, with central offices in San Antonio, TX. Member of Board of Directors of TCADP.
• Dr. Lars Hagborg, Death Penalty Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Director of the PhD program, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden
• Sandra Reed (Mother of Rodney Reed, an innocent man on Texas Death Row)
• Lawrence Foster, Sr. whose grandson, Kenneth Foster, is on death row.
• Ami White - "My mother was murdered when I was five years old. I went through many emotions and feelings, but anger was one feeling that I didn't feel for long. Through the organization Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, my objective is to teach young people that forgiveness and acceptance is the key to healing. I want to help others heal so that they can live and love their lives once again .
• Njeri Shakur and Gloria Rubac, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
• Bruce Williams, cousin of Francis Newton, a woman scheduled for execution on December 1

MUSIC

The Welfare Poets are a group of 10 musicians who have been together for many years writing, singing, and performing poetry and music. They are also supporters of several death row inmates including Kenneth Foster, Jr., Randy Arroyo Baez, and Tony Ford, who have arranged for the band to be here.

TRANSPORTATION FROM HOUSTON

TDPAM will leave the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak & Alabama in Houston, at 8 AM on October 30 to come to the march. People in Houston can email TDPAM to see if they have room for riders: 713-521-0629 during the day, Email: AbolitionMovement@juno.com.

Thank you to the hundreds of people who came out to the march in 2003! Cities throughout Texas were represented - El Paso, Spring, Conroe, Beaumont, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Seguin, San Marcos, McAllen, Waco, Lubbock, Azle, Arlington, Bastrop, Austin and on and on. We also had people who came from as far away as France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and other countries.

If you come to the march, bringing hand-made signs, banners and other items will help us get out the anti-death penalty message.

Photo of 4th Annual March to Stop Executions on October 18, 2003.

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Two Photos from 2nd March in 2001.

Photo Album of 3rd Annual March in 2002.

More Pictures from 2002 March.

Click Here for Pictures of the 2003 March to Stop Executions

More 2003 Pictures

Here is the page we put up for the 3rd Annual March in 2002.

The march is organized by people from many different groups working together as the March to Stop Executions Coalition. If your organization, church, synagogue or mosque wants to be listed as a sponsor of the march, let us know. The list of sponsors grows every year. In recent years, participating organizations have included:

To get involved email us: admin@texasmoratorium.org Or call us at: 512-302-6715.

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Resist, Inc.

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