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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- States Without the Death Penalty Have Lower Homici...
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- Open File Discovery Op Ed in the Tennessean
- State Requests a Date for Gaile Owens' Execution
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- A Season to Remember
- Ray Krone Visits Tennessee
Links
- Abolish the Death Penalty Blog
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- 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, January 04, 2010
American Law Institute Abandons the Death Penalty
As we reported in an earlier blog post, in October 2009, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital punishment system, abandoned the effort "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment." In other words, the death penalty system in this country is irrevocably broken, and the Institute knows it.
Read more here.
Read more here.
