Dear Friends,
Texas executes more human beings each year than any state in the nation.
This Saturday in Fort Worth, the Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty will hold its annual conference, Lighting the Way, bringing together statewide activists to speak out against this continuing state-sponsored mechanism of death. FOR will be present, tabling at the conference, and we invite you to stop by:
Lighting the Way: Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty annual conference
Fellowship Hall at the University Christian Church (TCU Campus)
2720 S. University Drive, Fort Worth, Texas (get directions)
Tickets: $70, or $25 for students. You can register online until 6PM today, or at the door.
Tomorrow (Friday), Rev. Jeff Hood, convener of the North Texas FOR chapter, and two other community leaders will walk 35 miles from Dallas to Fort Worth to call our state's attention to this issue. We invite you to join us for this day-long pilgrimage, or on Saturday at the TCADP conference.
The "Faithful Pilgrimage to Abolish the Death Penalty" will begin with a 8:30 a.m. press conference at the Dallas County District Attorney's Office in the Frank Crowley Courts Building. Dallas-area faith leaders will join Rev. Hood, Rev. Wes Magruder of the North Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Lynn Walters of Hope for Peace and Justice, as they prepare to embark on this important march for life.
 Their walk will proceed from Dallas through Grand Prairie and Arlington along Texas-180 West, and will conclude with a 9:00 rally and press conference with faith leaders outside the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office in the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center at 401 West Belknap, Fort Worth, TX 76196.
Jeff says, "People of faith go on pilgrimage when their spirits are troubled by the times and there is a desperate need for prayer. We have chosen to walk prayerfully from Dallas to Fort Worth to oppose the cycle of violence in the State of Texas that is perpetuated every time our District Attorneys pursue the penalty of death and our government executes someone. We believe that the State of Texas robs us of the opportunity to love our neighbor as our self every time someone is executed and so we pray for a newfound respect for life here in our home. We hope to ignite the moral imagination of our fellow citizens so that we might all rise up together with one courageous voice and declare the death penalty to be no more."
Please join us in person or with your prayers this weekend as we speak out against the death penalty.
In peace,
 Susana Pimiento
Southwest Regional Coordinator/Organizer
Fellowship of Reconciliation
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