Anti-Death Penalty Death Penalty Protest in Houston

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Death penalty opponents picketed and held a press conference before the hearing in Judge Kevin Fine's courtroom began Monday morning on the constitutionality of the Texas death penalty.

The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, the Texas Moratorium Network, Witness to Innocence and Mexicanos en Accion spoke out about their concern for "how the death penalty is used in Texas, how innocent people are exonerated through nothing but the luck of the draw and how the risk of convicting innocent people of capital murder is indeed unconstitutional and should end."

"This system has sent many innocent people to their death in Huntsville and we are justifiably angry about this," said Abolition Movement activist Njeri Shakur. "The system is broken and must be shut down."

Protestors attended the hearing Monday in hopes that Fine will look at the evidence and declare that the risk of innocent people being convicted and executed is cruel and unusual punishment -- a violation of the 8th amendment of the United States Constitution.

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