TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- Tennessee Inmate Dies on Death Row
- Social Workers
- Study Committee Gets the Facts
- A Wise Man Once Said...
- One Year Cram Session
- Hodgepodge
- World Day Against the Death Penalty
- TCASK Student Conference 2007
- Clean up the Mess, then Give him Water
- Execution Delay
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, October 29, 2007
American Bar Association Calls for a Halt to Death Penalty
In a report released on Sunday, the American Bar Association stated that the nation's death penalty system should be halted until vital improvements are made. The report is based on research in eight states, examining the "fairness and accuracy" of death penalty systems. In every state studied, serious flaws were discovered.
The ABA released its Tennessee Assessment on the Death Penalty last spring and of 93 guidelines for a fair and accurate system, Tennessee fully complied with only 7 for which data was available.
Stephen Hanlon, chairman of the ABA"s Death Penalty Moratorium Project, told ABC news, "In determining who gets the death penalty, all too frequently, it seems to be not the person who has committed the worst crime, but the person who has the worst lawyer." Read more.
