NEW RESOURCE: The Angolite Focuses On Texas Death Penalty

The most recent edi­tion of The Angolite, a bimonth­ly mag­a­zine pro­duced by inmates at Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary, focus­es on the Texas death penal­ty. The pub­li­ca­tion’s fea­ture arti­cle, ​“If Not For Texas,” is an overview of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Texas com­pared to oth­er states and to nation­al death penal­ty devel­op­ments. The high num­ber of exe­cu­tions in Texas, inad­e­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tion, inno­cence, juve­niles, race, vic­tims’ fam­i­lies, the men­tal­ly retard­ed, and women on death row are among the top­ics dis­cussed. (The Angolite, January-February 2003) See Resources.