Travis County D.A. Candidates Speak About Death Penalty

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The mother of a murder victim is calling on candidates for Travis County District Attorney to institute a moratorium on the punishment.

Jeanette Popp's daughter Nancy DePriest was murdered in Austin in 1988. Jeanette became intimately familiar with the many flaws of the Texas criminal justice system after two innocent men, Chris Ochoa and Richard Danziger, were wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and spent 12 years in prison. They were exonerated and released in 2001. The City of Austin settled separate lawsuits with Danziger and Ochoa for $9 million and $5.3 million respectively in 2003. Danziger also settled with Travis County for $950,000. The actual killer, Achim Marino, was convicted in October 2002.

"The death penalty system in Texas is broken. The next DA in Travis County should reflect how the Travis County community's views on the death penalty have evolved in recent years and pledge that for now the death penalty is off the table within Travis County", said Scott Cobb of Texas Moratorium Network. "If we want to slow down the number of executions in Texas and reduce the risk of executing an innocent person, we need to elect a district attorney who will pledge to impose a moratorium on seeking new death sentences and a moratorium on setting execution dates for cases with existing death sentences. Certainly a DA candidate in Travis County who makes such a pledge will find a rich reward of votes in the Democratic primary", said Cobb.

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[MrLorenzophelps]

Chris Ochoa is a lier and a muder. I was the security officer that talked to Chris and Richard that day at Pizza Hut. It's what they both told me face to face {no police} is why I say this to be true.May they both rot in hell for what they did.

[fourteenKnuckels]

Why not tell the WHOLE TRUTH Christopher Ochoa falsely confessed to the rape & killing Of Nancy DePriest to the cops. Then went on to confess in court & accused his friend in graphic testimony, Of doing the same.

Then Chris Ochoa walked around the prison for 10 years saying he did it.

Chris Ochoa is an ass that put HIMSELF in prison ! Just b/c this jerk screwed up his own life does not mean we should feel sorry for him or let other people get away with murder