TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Greg Thompson Receives More National Attention
Syndicated columnist, Richard Cohen, recently named Greg Thompson (currently incarcerated on Tennessee's death row) as his person of the year for 2006, chosen "to call attention to the madness of the death penalty."
Cohen points out that death penalty cases are built on certainty, but that the only true certainty we can have is that sometimes we will be wrong. In the case of the death penalty, that wrongness is quite literally deadly.
Read the whole piece, here.
Cohen points out that death penalty cases are built on certainty, but that the only true certainty we can have is that sometimes we will be wrong. In the case of the death penalty, that wrongness is quite literally deadly.
Read the whole piece, here.
