The Gulf Region Advocacy Center

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 County for retrial because his original attorney slept during his first trial, to the dramatic life verdict in the 2008 jury trial of Juan Quintero Perez for murder of a police officer, and our successful pro bono representation of many other Texas defendants, GRACE has relied upon private funding, and volunteer labor to bring the methodologies of successful capital defense offices around the country to bear in the bloodiest courthouses in America. READ MORE...

What's New

May 2012: GRACE secures a new hearing for Louisiana death row inmate Todd Wessinger... read more.

May 2012: Columbia Law School uncovers evidence that Texas executed an innocent man... read more.

April 2012: GRACE secures a stay of execution for Louisiana death row inmate Todd Wessinger... read more.

December 2011: Thank you to everyone who has helped GRACE and our clients survive another year! Here is our 2011 Holiday Newsletter.

December 2011: GRACE is ranked in this years Philanthropedia Local Criminal Justice charities... read more.

November 2011: GRACE board member represents British women on death row featured in documentary... read more.

November 2011: Help GRACE on this Cyber Monday! ... read more.

October 2011: GRACE director discusses the effect race has on sentencing in a death penalty case at the New Yorker Festival... read more.