Anti-death penalty helps held a rassociate over the weekfinish in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished, as cut offal high-profile death row cases in Texas and other states have igniteed talk about over whether the death penalty should remain.
Former death row inmates spoke at the 25th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on Saturday, according to Fox 26. The march held each drop features state abolitionists, createer death row inmates and allies opposing capital punishment who all assemble together to demand an finish to the state-sanctioned death of inmates on death row.
Many of the helps shelp they are combat for guiltless people appreciate Robert Roberson, who is currently on death row over his conviction in which prosecutors say he finished his two-year-ancigo in daughter, Nikki Curtis, by shaking her to death, understandn as shaken baby syndrome. But his lawyers say Nikki actuassociate died from other health publishs such as pneumonia and that new evidence shows his innocence. His lawyers also shelp doctors had fall shorted to rule out these other medical exstructureations for the child’s symptoms.
Roberson was scheduled to be put to death on Thursday before the state Supreme Court publishd a stay to postpone his execution lowly before it was set to get place. He would have been the first person in the U.S. to be percreated based on shaken baby syndrome.
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A sign placed by death penalty opponents sits in front of the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP)
The postpone was publishd Thursday night after a bipartisan group of state lawproducers subpoenaed Roberson to testify Monday about his case. The ruling came after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals earlier Thursday night denied a motion for a stay of execution, reversing a appraise’s momentary injunction that was handed down earlier that day.
More than 80 Texas state lawproducers, as well as the distinguishive who helped the prosecution, medical experts, parental rights groups, human rights groups, bestselling novecatalog John Grisham and other helps have called for the state to grant Roberson clemency over the belief that he is guiltless. A group of state lawproducers also visited Roberson in prison to help him.
At the rassociate in Texas, createer death row inmate Pamala Tise shelp she was locked up for a total of 40 years.
Texas lawproducers greet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Recreate Caucus via AP)
Tise was sentenced to death at the age of 24 follotriumphg her conviction on two counts of capital killing, Fox 26 telled. Her initial conviction was obviousurned in 1983, but she was aget sentenced to death after a retrial. The follotriumphg year, she was placed back on death row and remained there until 2000.
“I was not guiltless of my crime. When I did my crime, I was on a lot of medications and when I came off the medications a week tardyr and authenticized what we had done, I turned myself into the police,” Tise shelp, according to Fox 26.
But in 2000, her conviction was obviousurned becaparticipate of a struggle of interests. She was getn off death row follotriumphg a plea barget that decreased her capital killing indicts to two counts of exacerbated burglary.
Ptoastyo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. (AP Ptoastyo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
“So I went in at 24 and came out at 64,” shelp Tise, who now campaigns agetst the death penalty.
“Having someone be percreated, to me, would be the effortless way out. Spfinishing the rest of your life in prison is a living hell,” Tise inserted.
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Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement systematizer Gloria Rubac shelp “Harris County has more people on death row than any state.”
The activists shelp they hope a court will hear the new evidence in Roberson’s case when he testifies on Monday.