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Abolishing the death penalty in Texas is a central concern of mine. In June 2006, I joined the Corpus Christi chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP), and I have worked on prison and death penalty issues ever since. CEDP is the only national, activist-based abolitionist group in the United States, and is built on the idea that death row inmates and their family members must be at the heart of the abolitionist struggle. In June 2007, I approached another local group, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, about passing a moratorium on executions for the city of Corpus Christi. Currently, I'm a member of a CEDP-TCADP ad hoc committee whose sole purpose is to press the Corpus Christi City Council to pass a moratorium on resolutions. As a commitee member, I wrote the first draft resolution calling for a moratorium on executions. |
