GRACE

GRACE is an independent, client-centered, Houston-based charity that provides high quality capital defense to indigents facing the death penalty. Beginning in 2002 with our life-saving representation of Calvin Burdine, who had been returned to Harris Count... Beginning with Calvin Burdine and continuing today, GRACE has always had a special focus on retrial/resentencing cases, stepping in to represent former death row inmates returned for new trials or sentencing. Over the years, we have stepped in on a pro bono basis to represent Robert Tennard and nine others. But, thanks to the amazing success of the professors and students of the University of Texas Capital Punishment Clinic, the number of retrial/resentencing clients began to outpace our capacity to represent them on a pro bono basis. At first, we found other ways to serve them - as appointed mitigation specialists to Johnny Paul Penry, Theodore Goynes and others; and as pro bono consulting counsel to assist appointed attorneys..

Primary location: Houston United States