TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
Previous Posts
- U.S. Supreme Court Stops Texas Execution of Hank S...
- Justice Day on the Hill 2010
- Fast for Life and Raise Money for TADP
- Tennessee Death Row Inmate, Timothy McKinney, Gets...
- 20/20 Highlights Innocence Issues for Two Tennesse...
- The Case of Gaile Owens: Unequal Justice
- Texas Judge Says Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear Tennessee Lethal In...
- Write-a-Thon at Rhodes College
- Kansas Falls One Vote Short in the Senate
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, March 29, 2010
Fox News Reports Crippling Costs of the Death Penalty
In an article posted on Saturday, Fox News reporter, Ed Barnes, writes about the exorbitant costs of the death penalty in this country, with Tennessee's system specifically mentioned. One of the most telling statements in the story--"The cost of killing killers is killing us."
The reality of the death penalty is that it drains state resources away from those measures that have been shown to prevent crime and is a public policy failure. We can do better.
Read the full story here.
Click here to vote in the Fox News poll on the death penalty
The reality of the death penalty is that it drains state resources away from those measures that have been shown to prevent crime and is a public policy failure. We can do better.
Read the full story here.
Click here to vote in the Fox News poll on the death penalty
