TAKE ACTION: If you support the death penalty in Texas, please call your state representative today and ask them to oppose HJR 24 and HB 877.

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Texas State Representative Elliott Naishtat (D - District 49) has authored HJR 24, which proposes a constitutional amendment relating to a moratorium on the execution of persons convicted of capital offenses.

Mr. Naishat is rabidly anti-death penalty, while 3 out of 4 Texans (74 percent) support the death penalty and want the state to continue executing those convicted of capital murder.

HJR 24 has been assigned to the Criminal Jurisprudence committee, and is scheduled for public hearing today at the Capitol in Austin.

If you support the death penalty, please call your state representative today and ask them to oppose HJR 24.  (If you are not sure who your state representative is or how to contact them, you can look here: http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/ ).

Another Study, Another Waste of Tax Dollars

Additionally, Rep. Naishtat has also introduced another bill, designed solely to waste Texas tax payer money.

HB 877 proposes the creation of a commission to study capital punishment in Texas. Something that has been studied nearly to death already. All that Rep. Naishtat wants to do is find a study that supports his belief that capital punishment is 1) biased against black people, 2) biased against brown people, 3) biased against the poor, 4) cruel and unusual punishment.

The United States Supreme Court as Well has more than clearly enough ruled that capital punishment is Constitutional. And the people of Texas have more than clearly enough expressed their support of the death penalty.

Any “study” that Rep Naishtat wants to throw together would amount to nothing more than a waste of tax payer dollars.

When you call your state represntative to voice your opposition to HJR 24, tell them that you also want them to oppose HB 877 because it’s a waste of our tax dollars.