An Open Letter to Richard Linklater on Our Texas Death Penalty
Capital punishment ensnares us all in a labyrinth of our own making, as your new film poignantly reveals.
Since 1954
Walter C. Long, an Austin attorney, is the founder and a board member of the Texas After Violence Project. He is a public health advocate for recognition of the death penalty as a trauma-organized social system that reproduces on a large scale the abusive family system.
Capital punishment ensnares us all in a labyrinth of our own making, as your new film poignantly reveals.