TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- Ohio Must Change Lethal Injection Drugs
- Longest Serving Tennessee Death Row Inmate Dies
- TCASK Board Retreat
- Paul House Bail Hearing Update
- How Difficult Can it Be
- Last Rights
- Richard Taylor Receives Life Sentence
- Joyce House Interview
- Making Bail
- Media on Paul House Hearing
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
Friday, June 13, 2008
More about Richard Austin
In today's Tennessean, Dwight Lewis wrote an interesting column concerning the case of Richard Austin, the oldest and longest serving inmate on Tennessee's death row, who recently died at the DeBerry Special Needs Facility here in Nashville. Lewis discusses the history of the case, a history that I didn't even know.
Thanks to Dwight Lewis for reminding us that the problems with the accuracy and fairness of Tennessee's death penalty are not new but have plagued the system since its beginning, and in an imperfect system, they always will.
Read Lewis' column here.
Thanks to Dwight Lewis for reminding us that the problems with the accuracy and fairness of Tennessee's death penalty are not new but have plagued the system since its beginning, and in an imperfect system, they always will.
Read Lewis' column here.
