TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- Myth: The Death Penalty Deters Murder
- Garage Sale + Waffle House = A Great Saturday
- 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
- An Incredible and Tragic Story
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
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
More Good News Nationally
This week's Newsweek carries a great interview with the Death Penalty Information Center's Director, Richard Dieter, discussing the growing distrust of the death penalty in America. In fact, a new national poll finds that 58% of Americans would support a nationwide moratorium! That's not as high as the percentage of Tennesseans (66%) who would support a moratorium in our state, but it's incredible that the message that innocent people get sentenced to death and that the death penalty is unfair has shaken support for the death penalty to such a degree.Check out the whole story here.
