TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- USA Today Article on Cecil Johnson's Autopsy
- American Law Institute Abandons the Death Penalty
- Tennessee Death Row Inmate, Perry Cribbs, To Get N...
- The Uneven Hand of Justice
- Gaile Owens Gets More Time
- States Without the Death Penalty Have Lower Homici...
- Attorneys Ask for More Time In Gaile Owens' Case
- Open File Discovery Op Ed in the Tennessean
- State Requests a Date for Gaile Owens' Execution
- Ohio Moves to One Drug Lethal Injection Protocol
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, January 11, 2010
More on the Unfairness of Gaile Owens' Death Sentence
In Sunday's Tennessean, John Seigenthaler--chairman emeritus of the Tennessean and founder of the First Amendment Center in Nashville--had another opinion piece, following up on his piece of a few weeks ago, concerning the case of Gaile Owens, an inmate on Tennessee's death row. In Sunday's article, he had more details about nine similar cases in Tennessee, only one of which resulted in a death sentence: the case of Gaile Owens.
The article not only demonstrates the unfairness of Gaile's sentence (particularly given that she was willing to plead guilty from the beginning) but of the continued arbitrariness of the death penalty in general.
Read more here.
The article not only demonstrates the unfairness of Gaile's sentence (particularly given that she was willing to plead guilty from the beginning) but of the continued arbitrariness of the death penalty in general.
Read more here.
