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In the ABA’s 2007 report on Tennessee’s death penalty system, Tennessee fully complied with only 7 of 93 guidelines for a fair and accurate system. The lack of preservation of DNA evidence was one of the failures of Tennessee’s system.

An article in yesterday’s Tennessean highlights issues such as extra costs and storage space as reasons why Tennessee and other states are not preserving evidence. Surely avoiding the execution of an innocent person would trump “storage” as a priority in Tennessee. Here is yet another issue for the Study Committee to examine.

Read the article here.

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The California Commission on the Death Penalty released its report on June 30, 2008, and I think it is important for Tennesseans, whose legislature is also examining the death penalty with the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty, to reflect on what the California report found. Here are some excerpts:

Delays

“Thirty persons have been on California’s death row for more than 25 years; 119 have been on death row for more than 2o years; and 240 have been on death row for more than 15 years.”
(In Tennessee, by my count, there are 27 inmates on death row who have been there for 20 years or more. There are 16 inmates who have been there for 15-20 years.)

“The families of murder victims are cruelly deluded in to believing that justice will be delivered with finality during their lifetimes.”

Costs

“The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate.”
(There has been no thorough and complete study of the cost of Tennessee’s death penalty system in the modern era.)

Alternatives Offered

• Narrowing the list of special circumstances that make a case eligible for a death sentence such as limiting aggravators and excluding felony murder as the basis for death eligibility
• Establishing the maximum penalty at lifetime incarceration
• Estimating and comparing the annual costs of available alternatives

Conclusion

“This report sets forth an ambitious and expensive agenda of reform. The failure to implement , however will be even more costly. The death penalty will remain a hollow promise to the people of California.”

Read the full report here.

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Last Thursday, the Promptness subcommittee of the Tennessee Study Committee on the Administration of the Death Penalty met for several hours with some compelling testimony and discussion.

One topic concerned the creation of an independent coordinator for services available to surviving victims’ families of first degree murder. This idea was raised by Committee member, Charlie Strobel, who himself experienced the horrible murder of his mother, Mary Catherine Strobel, in Nashville in 1986. As a representative of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, Charlie is looking for ways to help surviving families navigate the justice system following a murder with an independent advocate who is employed by neither the DA’s nor the defense. Currently, most victims’ advocates in Tennessee are located in the office of the District Attorneys. Though Charlie appreciates the work of these advocates, he believes that it is important that surviving families also have an independent person to talk to when difficult questions arise which families might feel uncomfortable asking either the DA’s or defense teams, both who have a stake in the process.

Many on the Committee felt that this proposed idea had real merit. Verna Wyatt, a Committee member and victims’ advocate representing “You Have the Power” questioned the need for such an independent coordinator. However, it is hard for me to imagine why the creation of a neutral person whose only agenda is to serve surviving families would be problematic. Perhaps more will be revealed.

Additionally, I was troubled by a Dennis Ferrier story which ran on WSMV Channel 4 on the Thursday news following the meeting concerning the length of time for post-conviction proceedings. At the prior subcommittee meeting on July 24, Mrs. Wyatt brought a resolution forward asking the legislature to urge the judiciary to comply with a 1995 law stating that such procedures should be limited to one year. After much testimony and discussion, the 1995 law mandating a one year time limit was found to be completely unrealistic and incompatible with a meaningful review.

Mr. Ferrier was not present for that meeting on July 24 when two judges appeared before the committee to talk about why this law cannot realistically be followed. Don Dawson of the Post-Conviction Defenders’ Office as well as Bill Redick, a Committee member, agreed with the judges and thoughtfully laid out all the reasons why this is the case.

If Mr. Ferrier had been present at that meeting, he would have heard testimony from these judges stating that in many cases, post conviction attorneys are starting from scratch on these cases as so many defendants get little to no defense in their original trials. Post-conviction attorneys have to begin at the beginning, doing all the research, interviews of witnesses and family members, and study that should have been done the first time around. Also, procedural issues can pop up which delay proceedings. In fact, at the Promptness subcommittee on June 19th, Elizabeth Ryan of the AG’s office and a Committee member, testified that delays in proceedings can be caused by the defense, the state, and even the courts themselves.

In his testimony on July 24, Judge Harris referenced the Gussie Vann case in which he just ruled in post-conviction proceedings that Vann deserved a new trial and was possibly innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Vann’s case has been in post conviction litigation for nine years. All of us can agree that nine years is too long, but executing an innocent person should never be an option either.

Mrs. Wyatt brought the resolution for a good reason. She believes that victims’ families should not be told that such proceedings will take a year if that is not accurate. Families suffer enough without having to deal with unrealistic expectations created by ill advised laws. Agreed!

By the end of Thursday’s meeting, subcommittee members decided that what was really needed was accurate data to understand the post-conviction process. Mrs. Wyatt agreed to bring a bill up for consideration in the next meeting requiring reports from the administrative office of the courts to be filed with the legislature concerning how long these cases are taking as well as reasons for delay. With that information, the 1995 law can be updated to reflect a more accurate picture of the time that these cases should realistically take.

However, that conclusion was not brought out in Ferrier’s story. Instead, he questioned the integrity of the judges who are simply trying to do meaningful reviews of these cases and cannot get them completed in the arbitrary time limits of this law. I found Mrs. Wyatt’s quote in the story concerning the judges to be unfair as she states, “They are either dragging their feet because they don’t believe in the death penalty, or they don’t care and it looks really arrogant. It looks very arrogant.”

Might I offer another explanation for the reason for the delay. Perhaps the reason that these cases take some time to sort out is that most capital defendants in Tennessee are poor and go to trial with inadequate–if not invisible–defense with issues of faulty eyewitness testimony, alibi witnesses who are never called to testify, or severe mental illness that is never even mentioned in their trial. This total lack of adequate defense representation means that post-conviction attorneys are starting from scratch and need time. Perhaps it is also that judges want to be sure that if a person’s life is at stake, all measures are taken to ensure the defendant is getting a fair and accurate hearing; and in fact, the delay has nothing to do with anti-death penalty sentiment or arrogance as Mrs. Wyatt states.

And, if Mr. Ferrier had been present for the preceding committee meeting, he would have heard all of this testimony firsthand and might have envisioned his story a different way. What I think he would have heard over and over again is that if defense attorneys had the resources and training that they needed on the front end, post-conviction procedures would not take nearly the time that they currently take.

I think his story would have been about why Tennessee needs an independent authority to oversee capital defense in this state to ensure that capital defendants are being defended adequately.

Read or view Ferrier’s story here.

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As most of you are probably aware, yesterday during a church youth performance of “Annie”, a gunman opened fired at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, killing 2 and wounding 7. The first to be killed was Greg McKendry, a longtime church member and usher. McKendry stepped in front of the gunman and took the blast to protect those around him. The other victim, Linda Kraeger, died a few hours after the shooting. The gunman was tackled by John Bohstedt who was playing Daddy Warbucks in the musical and wrestled to the ground by other church members.

Jim D. Adkisson was arrested on the scene. Investigators believe that the congregation was targeted because of its support of liberal social policies. Adkisson had written a 4 page letter found in his vehicle. The police spokesperson commented that “it appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that and his stated hatred of the liberal movement.”

Our Unitarian Universalist sisters and brothers around the state are deeply committed to social justice and respect for human rights. TCASK works closely with Tennessee UU churches as many of their members are abolitionists and are active participants in the struggle to end the death penalty in Tennessee. The Unitarian Universalist Church has continually called for the abolition of the death penalty in its General Assemblies.

At this most difficult time for the people of Tennessee Valley UU, our thoughts and prayers are with them as they grieve these senseless deaths and begin to process what has occurred. The world continues to be a violent, unpredictable place, and I hope that the folks at Tennessee Valley UU can find some sense of peace in the aftermath of this tragedy through the love and prayers of so many around the state and the nation.

Read more here.

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Yesterday the Promptness subcommittee of the Tennessee Death Penalty Study Committee met for four hours discussing issues from the length of time taken for post-conviction proceedings to exempting those with severe mental illness from the death penalty.

A resolution was introduced by Verna Wyatt of “You Have the Power”, a Tennessee victims’ right organization, which encouraged Tennessee’s judicial branch to comply with a current Tennessee law stating that post-conviction procedures should be kept to a one year time limit. Wyatt’s concerns are valid ones. She stated that if victims’ families are told that these proceedings will be complete in a year’s time and instead they go on for several years, victims’ families suffer great pain and frustration.

Libby Sykes of the Administrative Office of the Courts as well as two judges–Judge Don Harris and Judge Bill Acree–spoke to why a year’s time limit is completely unrealistic and cannot be followed if post-conviction proceedings are to be meaningful. The overarching theme of the conversation was that if defense attorneys had the necessary resources at the trial level, the post-conviction proceedings would need not be so lengthy. Currently, so many defendants who get to post-conviction have almost no defense at trial. Therefore, the post-conviction defenders’ office has to start from scratch to mount a defense for them which can take a long time.

Judge Harris cited the case of Tennessee death row inmate Gussie Vann who will be granted a new trial because his defense attorneys didn’t do enough to fight claims that he raped and murdered his 8-year-old daughter in 1992. Vann asked for a new trial during his last court appearance in McMinn County in September. During the hearing, forensic experts testified there were flaws in the state’s handling of evidence following Vann’s daughter’s death, which was originally reported as an accidental hanging. The experts said there were no signs of sexual abuse as originally reported in the autopsy prepared by former medical examiner Ronald Toolsie of Bradley County. Judge Harris stated in his testimony that this post-conviction process had taken nine years to complete but, had it not been thorough and meaningful, the state would have already executed a man who is innocent of rape and probably of murder. However, all the Committee members agreed that victims’ families should be given a more realistic time line that spares them unnecessary frustration and that a change in the current law is needed.

Later, Sita Diehl of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Tennessee and a member of the Study Committee gave a presentation on legislation she would like to propose which would exempt those with severe mental illness from the death sentence. This legislation would not affect convictions but only take death off the table for those who met the strict guidelines of severe mental illness, which includes people suffering delusions, hallucinations, or who are completely unaware of their actions because of disassociation.

Diehl asked the question, “If those under the age of 18 and with mental retardation can no longer be sentenced to death because they cannot fully appreciate the consequences of their actions, how can people with severe mental illness, who are totally out of touch with reality, continue to receive the death sentence?

She also highlighted the fact that by removing these most severely ill people from the possibility of a death sentence, victims’ families would be spared years of hearings and appeals on competency issues while taxpayers would save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Diehl referenced the case of Richard Taylor, a former inmate on Tennessee’s death row who killed a correctional officer in 1981 when he was taken off his anti-psychotic medication. His case was finally settled in March 2008 after he agreed to a life sentence. In just one year of litigation on his case, nearly $100,000 was spent by the state on experts. That is just in one year! Imagine how much money the state spent attempting to get the death sentence for this man with severe mental illness over the past 27 years, only to get a life sentence in the end. All of this time and money could have been saved if Taylor had not be eligible for death in the first place.

This subcommittee is examining some real common sense ideas that could streamline the process, make the system less congested and less frustrating for everyone, and truly help our Tennessee system to be far more fair and accurate than it currently is. We hope that some real change will come from all the work of this Committee and that Tennesseans will see how such reform can benefits all of us. Regardless of how we feel about the death penalty, we all want a system that treats everyone fairly and that gets it right. Until we address all these issues, the system will never be just.

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The ACLU released documents on Thursday that Maryland state police went undercover to spy on war protesters and anti-death penalty activists during 2005-2006. Documents show that during this year covert agents infiltrated groups like the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, the Baltimore Coalition Against the Death Penalty as well as the Committee to Save Vernon Evans, a death row prisoner in Maryland. Some of the activists were then listed on terrorist watch lists.

To watch video interviews with some of the activists involved click here.

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