The Death Penalty in Texas

Name: The Death Penalty in Texas
Start: 2025-03-03T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-03T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Schedule

Mon Mar 03 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum | Austin, TX

For decades, Texas has been the state most closely associated with the death penalty. That's still true to this day. Rather than dedicating time to one specific case or debating the validity of capital punishment, the Future Forum is hosting an intimate conversation centered on the cost, gravity, and frequency of the death penalty in this state.
This conversation, moderated by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Maurice Chammah of The Marshall Project, will feature a rich discussion with Richard Linklater, renowned Austin filmmaker and mind behind the recent documentary Hometown Prison, and Estelle Hebron-Jones, death penalty lawyer for the Texas Defender Service and formerly of the Equal Justice Initiative. They'll touch on a variety of topics, ranging from the death penalty's widespread impacts on communities and families to its deep cultural roots in the Texas criminal justice system.