OUR LAWYERS

Our lawyers are Richard H. Burr and Mandy Welch, both of whom have extensive experience in capital litigation. Dick has devoted his practice entirely to death penalty defense work since 1979, first with Southern Prisoners Defense Committee, and then with the Public Defender’s Office in West Palm Beach, Florida, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Director of the Capital Punishment Project), the Texas Resource Center (Litigation Director), and finally, his private practice with his wife, Mandy Welch.   Mandy has devoted her practice entirely to death penalty defense work since 1985, first in private practice in Oklahoma City, and then with the Oklahoma Appellate Public Defender System, the Texas Resource Center (Litigation Director and Executive Director) and finally her private practice with her husband, Dick Burr.