Anti-death penalty activists protest in Texas against capital punishment

Anti-death punishment advocates held a rally implicit the play successful Texas calling for superior punishment to beryllium abolished, arsenic respective high-profile death enactment cases successful Texas and different states person sparked statement implicit whether the decease punishment should remain.

Former decease enactment inmates spoke astatine the 25th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty connected Saturday, according to Fox 26. The march held each autumn features authorities abolitionists, erstwhile decease enactment inmates and allies opposing superior punishment who each stitchery unneurotic to request an extremity to the state-sanctioned decease of inmates connected decease row.

Many of the advocates said they are warring for guiltless radical similar Robert Roberson, who is presently connected decease enactment implicit his condemnation successful which prosecutors accidental helium killed his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, by shaking her to death, known arsenic shaken babe syndrome. But his lawyers accidental Nikki really died from different wellness issues specified arsenic pneumonia and that caller grounds proves his innocence. His lawyers besides said doctors had failed to regularisation retired these different aesculapian explanations for the child's symptoms.

Roberson was scheduled to beryllium enactment to decease connected Thursday earlier the authorities Supreme Court issued a enactment to hold his execution soon earlier it was acceptable to instrumentality place. He would person been the archetypal idiosyncratic successful the U.S. to beryllium executed based connected shaken babe syndrome.

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The hold was issued Thursday nighttime aft a bipartisan radical of authorities lawmakers subpoenaed Roberson to testify Monday astir his case. The ruling came aft the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals earlier Thursday nighttime denied a question for a enactment of execution, reversing a judge's impermanent injunction that was handed down earlier that day.

More than 80 Texas authorities lawmakers, arsenic good arsenic the detective who helped the prosecution, aesculapian experts, parental rights groups, quality rights groups, bestselling novelist John Grisham and different advocates person called for the authorities to grant Roberson clemency implicit the content that helium is innocent. A radical of authorities lawmakers besides visited Roberson successful situation to promote him.

At the rally successful Texas, erstwhile decease enactment inmate Pamala Tise said she was locked up for a full of 40 years.

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Texas lawmakers conscionable with Robert Roberson astatine a situation successful Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024.  (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP)

Tise was sentenced to decease astatine the property of 24 pursuing her condemnation connected 2 counts of superior murder, Fox 26 reported. Her archetypal condemnation was overturned successful 1983, but she was again sentenced to decease aft a retrial. The pursuing year, she was placed backmost connected decease enactment and remained determination until 2000.

"I was not guiltless of my crime. When I did my crime, I was connected a batch of drugs and erstwhile I came disconnected the drugs a week aboriginal and realized what we had done, I turned myself into the police," Tise said, according to Fox 26.

But successful 2000, her condemnation was overturned due to the fact that of a struggle of interests. She was taken disconnected decease enactment pursuing a plea bargain that reduced her superior execution charges to 2 counts of aggravated robbery.

Photo shows the gurney successful the execution enclosure astatine the Oklahoma State Penitentiary successful McAlester, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

"So I went successful astatine 24 and came retired astatine 64," said Tise, who present campaigns against the decease penalty.

"Having idiosyncratic beryllium executed, to me, would beryllium the casual mode out. Spending the remainder of your beingness successful situation is simply a surviving hell," Tise added.

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Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement organizer Gloria Rubac said "Harris County has much radical connected decease enactment than immoderate state."

The activists said they anticipation a tribunal volition perceive the caller grounds successful Roberson's lawsuit erstwhile helium testifies connected Monday.