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Ellen Di Giosia has been named coordinator of CBF Texas, succeeding that organization’s long-time leader, Rick McClatchy, who is retiring.

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Letters to the Editor - Clergy at Texas executions, Trammell Crow, climate change, the GOP, transgender policies, Dak Prescott Readers share how they feel about the death penalty, praise Trammell Crow for being proactive regarding climate change, agree with two letter writers who criticized the GOP, advocate for transgender children and appreciate Dak Prescott. Rep. Carl O. Sherman, Jr., D-Dallas, stands outside a mock cell the Texas Prison Air-Conditioning Advocates set up in South Austin the week of April 19, 2021. The group invited lawmakers and the public to...

Texas reverses ban on religious advisers in execution chamber By (0) April 22 (UPI) -- Texas announced Thursday that it's reversed its ban on spiritual advisers entering the state's execution chambers. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued a revised policy allowing death row inmates to designate a TDCJ chaplain or other spiritual adviser of their choosing to be present inside the death chamber after they receive notification of their execution date. Advertisement The reversal comes two years after the state banned any chaplain from entering the execution chamber amid a legal fight...

Texas ends clergy, spiritual advisers ban in death chamber Follow Us Question of the Day     By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press - Thursday, April 22, 2021 HOUSTON (AP) - Texas prisons have resumed allowing clergy as well as spiritual advisers in the death chamber, reversing a two-year ban created after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of an inmate who had argued his religious freedom was being violated because his Buddhist spiritual adviser wasn’t allowed to accompany him, officials said Thurs...