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Texas Moratorium Network PDF Print E-mail
Texas Moratorium Network (TMN) was formed in 2000 with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas. To accomplish this goal, TMN engages in educational and outreach projects and works with other groups devoted to human rights and criminal justice reform, including other non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, civic organizations and student groups. The organization believes that significant death penalty reform in Texas, including a moratorium on executions, is a viable goal if the public is educated on the death penalty system and is encouraged to contact their elected representatives to urge passage of moratorium legislation. TMN currently has a database of about 20,000 non-dues paying members across the state, about 1700 regular donors and an email list of almost 9,000.  

TMM’s leadership has advocated for moratorium legislation in the Texas Legislature in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. In 2001, TMN obtained the only endorsement of a moratorium by a Republican Texas legislator by arranging a discussion between the legislator and Kerry Cook. In 2005, TMN was responsible for two additional state representatives filing moratorium legislation. TMN organizes Death Penalty Issues Lobby Days at the State Capitol during each legislative session.  It sparked the Texas Democratic Party’s endorsement of a moratorium in the 2004, 2006 and 2008 party platforms and has established the Death Penalty Reform Caucus within the Party with meetings held at the 2004, 2006 and 2008 state conventions. It persuaded the Travis County Commissioners Court to pass a moratorium resolution in 2003 and the Austin Human Rights Commission to pass one in 2005. TMN worked together with other groups on behalf of Kenneth Foster in 2007. TMN led a coalition of groups working together to Save Jeff Wood in 2008.

In 2004, TMN started the innovative Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break. It facilitated the establishment of the independent, student-run group Texas Students Against the Death Penalty, which took over organizing spring break in 2006. TMN received funding from the City of Austin and the Texas Commission on the Arts to hold an international, all-media, juried art show entitled “Justice for All?: Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty” in 2006. TMN operates a highly ranked educational and advocacy website (texasmoratorium.org), which has helped it to generate thousands of emails, faxes, postcards and letters to legislators, Gov. Perry and other officeholders.