TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- how emotions can lead to (really) bad public polic...
- the governor can make a difference...
- accident at the intersection of mental illness and...
- it's the broken system stupid...
- tennessee is about to take a quantum leap...
- holy cow - i really can't believe it...
- Those Oh-So-Useful Little Tools
- Wonders of the World
- Contradictory Thinking
- judging whether a killer is sane enough to die...
Links
- Abolish the Death Penalty Blog
- Amnesty International Death Penalty Blog
- Asia Death Penalty Blog
- For Victims, Against the Death Penalty
- The Real Cost of Prisons Blog
- Uncommon Sense on the Death Penalty
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Citizens United Against the Death Penalty
- Murder Victims Families for Human Rights
- Google News: TN death penalty
Contributors
Monday, June 12, 2006
more on mental illness and sentences for murder...
nicholas hilt was facing charges of premeditated first-degree murder, felony murder, child rape and aggravated child abuse ... ugly, ugly stuff ... i will not recount the horrific details here but you can read about them in this chattanoogan.com on-line article ...
tcask has re
cently blogged about attempts to expand the death penalty for child rape as well as mental illness and capital punishment and this case brings both of these issues into play with a better than expected outcome...
hilt was sentenced to life without parole for the murder charge and will be sentenced August 29th on the rape and child abuse charges...
now the death penalty was on the table originally but prosecutor barry steelman decided ultimately not to pursue a death sentence...
why???
his office reports that they questioned his (hilt's) mental state...
good for steelman - the victim's family will be able to begin the long road to healing much sooner than if hilt had received a death sentence...
now, if we could divert the $$$ saved by steelman's decision into victim's counseling and other victim's services we might have the beginning of a better model of responding to such a horrendous crime...
peace out - <3
tcask has re
cently blogged about attempts to expand the death penalty for child rape as well as mental illness and capital punishment and this case brings both of these issues into play with a better than expected outcome...hilt was sentenced to life without parole for the murder charge and will be sentenced August 29th on the rape and child abuse charges...
now the death penalty was on the table originally but prosecutor barry steelman decided ultimately not to pursue a death sentence...
why???
his office reports that they questioned his (hilt's) mental state...
good for steelman - the victim's family will be able to begin the long road to healing much sooner than if hilt had received a death sentence...
now, if we could divert the $$$ saved by steelman's decision into victim's counseling and other victim's services we might have the beginning of a better model of responding to such a horrendous crime...
peace out - <3
