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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- Bredesen and Mumpower Called Out by Hometown Paper!
- TOTI is coming to town—and he’s not Italian
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
- My very first TCASK blog on this very important day
- Introducing Isaac!
- General Assembly Calls for Study of Death Penalty
- Committee Hopping
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- 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
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
24 Hours To Go!
24 hours from now, at 9:00 am Thursday morning, Rep Mike Turner will hold a press conference calling on the Governor to free Paul House after more than 22 years on Tennessee's death row! Rep. Turner will be joined by Joyce House, Paul's mother, a representative of Murder Victim's Families for Human Rights, and a number of other members of the Tennessee General Assembly. They will present a letter to Governor Bredesen, signed by over 25 legislators, both Democrat and Republican, abolitionists and death penalty supporters. The point is, Paul House's case transcends the partisan divide, or even the debate about the morality of capital punishmen
t. House has been incarcerated for nearly half of his life for a crime for which the United States Supreme Court says no reasonable jury would convict him!
t. House has been incarcerated for nearly half of his life for a crime for which the United States Supreme Court says no reasonable jury would convict him!So come out tomorrow at 9:00 to Room 30 of Legislative Plaza at the Tennessee State Capitol and show your support for Paul House. As usual, the Nashville Scene is already on top of the story, posting an article in its online blog today! We continue to pray that the Governor will do the right thing and get House home to his mother rather than allow a very sick and innocent man to die in prison.
