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Opponents of death penalty take protest to the Capitol

By "Persian Cowboy"

The Austin American-Statesman has published the following story by Isadora Vail about the Justice Rally during the 2010 Anti-Death Penalty Spring Break. Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner's husband is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday. On Thursday, she came to Austin to join about 100 other people on the Capitol steps to protest the death penalty in Texas. "We are in Austin, and you can do something to help him," Ageorges-Skinner said. "Human justice should not kill people." The Justice Rally, which included marchers brandishing anti-death penalty posters and carrying a full-size coffin, was organized to try to abolish the death penalty, or at least ask for a moratorium. Since 1973, when Texas reinstituted the death penalty, the state has executed 451 inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 20, 2010 (boomark / email).