In a new online ad, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for governor, accuses his opponent, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, of flip-flopping on supporting the death penalty.
The ad claims Davis โvoted to endโ the death penalty in the past before coming out in favor of it during the current campaign. Featuring clips of text from a recent Houston Chronicle article, the ad references Davisโ vote in favor of a resolution urging a national moratorium on the death penalty when she was a new Fort Worth city councilwoman in 2000.
That article, however, undermines the claim that Davisโ vote was to end the death penalty:
โAccording to Fort Worth City Council minutes, the moratorium was proposed to โsupport a study of executions under the death penalty. It in no way means to suggest that a person’s philosophy on capital punishment had to change or shift, only that the system needed to be looked at or reviewed.โโ
Davisโ campaign has said she supports the death penalty and would enforce it as governor.ย


