***IN AUSTIN** 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty

The 18th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin, Texas on the South Steps of the Texas Capitol at 2 PM on Saturday, October 28, 2017.

Texas has executed 543 people since 1982, almost 5 times as many as the number 2 state. Texas has executed 5 people so far in 2017, with 6 more Texas executions set for the rest of the year, including 3 in October.

Special Guests: Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing, including Bill Pelke, Terri Steinberg, and David Kaczynski. The Journey brings together families of the murdered, families of the executed, and survivors of death row… to share their stories.

Also speaking Terri Been – sister of Texas death row prisoner Jeff Wood (Sentenced under the unjust Law of Parties) Save Jeff Wood!

Other speakers to be announced!

MC: Lily Hughes

If you are in Houston, contact the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement to get on the bus to Austin on Oct 28.

Each autumn since 2000, people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas, the U.S. and other countries have taken a day out of their year and gathered in Austin to raise their voices together and loudly express their opposition to the death penalty. The march is a coming together of activists, family members of those on death row, community leaders, exonerated death row survivors and all those calling for abolition. The march started in Austin in 2000. In 2007 and 2008, the march was held in Houston. It came back to Austin for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. It was in Houston again in 2014 and back in Austin since 2015.

The annual march is organized as a joint project by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations working together.