Steve Hall is the director of StandDown Texas Project, which advocates \a moratorium on executions and a state-sponsored review of Texas' application of the death penalty.\ In Video 1, Hall describes the renewal of capital punishment in Texas, which he facilitated and witnessed in his capacity as Chief of Staff for Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox from 1983 to 1991. Texas executed thirty-six people during this period. Hall also draws on his experience, between 1993 and 1996, working for the Texas Resource Center, which was charged with both directly representing and recruiting pro bono lawyers to represent inmates on death row. In Video 2, Hall continues to discuss major issues in death penalty jurisprudence and politics. In Video 3, Hall identifies signs that the death penalty may be disappearing. This interview took place on January 28 and February 4, 2009 in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
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Hall, Steve (Narrator), Texas After Violence Project (Contributor), Hinz-Foley, Sabina (Interviewer), Ambrosini-Bacon, Kimberly (Videographer), and Students of the Introduction to Qualitative Research class (2009) taught by Dr. Janet Armitage, St. Mary's College (Transcriber)