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2010



Another Texas Execution Called Into Question After Forensic Investigation

Ten years after Texas executed Claude Jones for the the murder of Allen Hilzendager, forensics experts are saying the one piece of physical evidence linking Jones to the crime, a lone piece of hair, does not belong to Claude Jones. Using mitochondrial DNA testing, a process available prior to Jones’ execution, Mitotyping Technologies found that the hair used to  sentence him to death, belonged not to Jones, but Allen Hilzendager. Jones and his attorneys filed a motion to test the hair prior to his 2000 execution. Jones’ appeal was turned down by both the district court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The Innocence Project and the Observer, a Texas magazine, obtained the hair from the San Jacinto County courthouse in 2010 after a three-year legal battle with the district attorney’s office. While the lack of DNA evidence does not prove Claude Jones’ innocence, it certainly casts a shadow of suspicion on a system that consistently seems to place more emphasis on upholding convictions than ensuring it has convicted the right people.

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Advocates Speak Out Against Executing People Who Suffer From Severe And Persistent Mental Illness

More than 220 attendees gathered at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s University Center last night to hear the stories of two brothers, both deeply affected by mental illness and the criminal justice system. David Kacyznski, brother of Ted Kaczynski (the so-called Unabomber), spoke about how unimaginable it was that his older brother Ted, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, could be the most wanted man in America. While Ted Kaczynski would plead guilty and receive a life sentence, David reminded the audience that not all people who suffer from severe and persistent mental illness receive similar treatment.

Bill Babbitt reiterated this point when speaking about his brother Manny, who was executed in California on his 50th birthday. A decorated war veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, Manny Babbitt was sentenced to death after a woman he assaulted died of a heart attack. Bill Babbitt admitted during his presentation that he “was always a believer in the death penalty … until it came knocking on my door.”

Both speakers stressed the importance of a criminal justice system that recognizes people with severe and persistent mental illness as “more likely to make false confessions and more commonly fire their lawyers and represent themselves in court.”  Following the presentation, representatives from the National Alliance on Mental Illness urged attendees to support legislation in Tennessee that would exclude people who suffer from severe and persistent mental illness from the death penalty just as people with intellectual disability are currently excluded.

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Stephen West Receives Temporary Stay

On Saturday, the Tennessee Supreme Court gave Stephen West a temporary stay of execution, deciding that the Davidson County Chancery Court can hear evidence in a lawsuit that West’s attorneys filed claiming that inmates executed by lethal injection experience severe pain, violating their constitutional rights.

The lawsuit claims the first drug in Tennessee’s three-drug lethal injection protocol, sodium thiopental, does not properly anesthetize inmates, which is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

In this latest appeal, West’s attorneys state that the autopsy results from Steve Henley’s execution in February 2009 indicate that Henley may not have been unconscious when he died. Henley’s autopsy, not released by the state for months after his execution, showed that the level of sodium thiopental in Henley’s body just after the execution was inadequate to cause unconsciousness. The appeal states that witnesses during the execution saw Henley’s face turn blue and purple and also said that the autopsy suggests he died from suffocation while also not adequately anesthetized.

And, though this latest news about Steve Henley’s execution is extremely painful to hear, particularly for his family and friends, TADP hopes that his ordeal might help other inmates facing execution.

TADP also wants to thank all of you who wrote letters, mailed clemency cards, made calls, or sent emails to Governor Bredesen requesting clemency.

TADP will get out information about the statewide vigils to be held on November 30, if Steve West does not get further relief from the courts.

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The Scheduled Execution of Stephen West

The state of Tennessee plans to execute Stephen West at 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 9, at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.

On March 18, 1986, Stephen West, 23, and Ronnie Martin, 17, were arrested for the murders of Wanda and Sheila Romines. West was ultimately sentenced to death in 1987 for the murders though his co-defendant confessed to being the actual killer. However, because Martin was a juvenile at the time, he was ineligible to receive the death penalty so he received two life sentences instead.

Read the case summary here and see  a sample letter  that you can use to email Governor Bredesen at Phil.Bredesen@tn.gov to ask for clemency for West. You can also call the Governor’s office at 615.741.2001 or fax at 615.532.9711. 

If the execution moves forward, TADP will hold vigils across the state to remember all those individuals whose lives have been lost to murder as well as the families who have been traumatized. And, as we remember, we also gather to resist the continued use of violence as a means to address these tragedies.

Because there is a new execution time, 10:00 p.m., plans have changed around the TADP vigil in Nashville. Because of the earlier time frame, Nashville TADP will hold only one event on the eve of the execution.  We will gather on Tuesday, November 9, in the field just past the entrance to Riverbend at 7:30 p.m and will hold an interfaith Service of Remembrance and Resistance at 8:00 p.m. in this location. Following the service, we will wait together until 9:30 when we will begin our candlelight vigil until the execution occurs or a stay is granted.

In Knoxville, there will be 2 services. The first is a candlelight vigil of Remembrance and Resistance on the UTK campus, outside the 2nd floor of Hodges Library, to be held on Sunday, November 7th from 6-8 pm. A second service in Knoxville will be on Monday, November 8th at 7 pm at the Church of the Savior off Weisgarber road.

In Memphis, a vigil will be held on November 9 at 7:00 at Immaculate Conception Cathedral.

There is still time to let the Governor know that you would like this execution to be stopped.  Act now.

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Dotson Case Highlights Exorbitant Death Penalty Costs

Whether they like it or not, Tennessee residents will pay a lot of tax dollars to have Jessie Dotson executed. An article in Sunday’s Commercial Appeal stated that the state has already spent nearly $450,000 trying and convicting Dotson, who was sentenced to six death sentences. 

While these costs may seem outrageous to the public, they are certainly not extraordinary considering capital cases are more expensive than non-capital cases at every level. According to the Commercial Appeal, the state spent over $250,000 on the defense alone. Marty McAffee, who served as co-counsel for Jessie Dotson, is quoted as saying, “Because it’s so final, they’ve got to spend resources. We could save a lot of money by not having the death penalty in Tennessee. Life in prison is enough to break even the worst of the worst. That would be a better use of Tennessee’s resources.”

McAffee’s words become even more poignant when the cost of incarceration data provided by the 2004 Comptroller’s report fails to give the whole story. Given the Department of Corrections recent estimate that they spend $34,065.45 to house a death row inmate for a year, $23,699.45 to house an inmate serving life without parole, and the average 22 years spent on death row, executions only “save” taxpayers $435,532.60 incarceration costs rather than the $773,736 cited in the Comptroller’s report.  And again, the “savings” referred to in the report only take into account incarceration costs.

When compared with the exorbitant costs spent on a capital trial as well as the costs of the numerous appeals available within our current judicial system, the state ultimately spends far more on the death penalty as a whole than life without parole.  And given that a  2001 report in the Tennessean stated that of the 151 death sentences that had completed review in both state and federal court, 76 had been reversed, citizens often pay for expensive capital trials (the most costly part of the process) with almost half of the defendants ending up with life sentences anyway. 

In 2007, the Tennessee Comptroller’s office testified before the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty that, though the office did a cost study in 2004, the fact is that because the data is not centralized, there is no way to really get at the true costs of the death penalty to Tennesseans. For all the talk among politicians about government spending and accountability, I have heard no one demanding that Tennesseans get a true accounting of  how much we are spending on the death penalty system. 

We can hold violent individuals like Mr. Dotson accountable for their crimes and keep society safe without spending precious resources on the death penalty and without putting the victims families through 20 years of waiting for the sentence to be carried out.  There is another way.    

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Innocent Man Released After 18 Years on Texas Death Row

The colloquial phrase innocent until proven guilty is thrown around a lot in this country. In the case of Anthony Graves, the converse seems more appropriate when after 18 years and a death sentence the state of  Texas declared him an innocent man. Convicted in 1994, the State’s case against Graves relied almost entirely on the the testimony of his supposed accomplice, Robert Earl Carter, who recanted his story shortly before his own execution in 2000. In spite of Carter’s recantation, Graves remained on death row until a team of journalism students from the University of St. Thomas began investigating the circumstances of his conviction. With evidence gathered by these journalism students and the help of the Innocence Project at the University of Houston, Graves conviction was overturned in 2006 by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court granted Graves a new trial and he returned to the county jail.

Prior to the commencement of Graves’ retrial, the District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss all  charges against him. In commenting on the case, Assistant District Attorney, Kelly Siegler, said “After months of investigation and talking to every witness who’s ever been involved in this case, and people who’ve never been talked to before, after looking under every rock we could find, we found not one piece of credible evidence that links Anthony Graves to the commission of this capital murder. This is not a case where the evidence went south with time or witnesses passed away or we just couldn’t make the case anymore. He is an innocent man.” Upon his release, Anthony Graves became the 139 death row exoneree since 1973.

For more information on Anthony Graves’ case, please click here.

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Dialogue on the Death Penalty: Finding Common Ground

In this election season, a time of partisan posturing with a hyper focus of the media on the ideological divides in our nation, I was recently treated to an unusually thoughtful and substantive discussion on what has been historically seen as a “controversial” issue: the death penalty.  On Friday, October 22nd I was one of about 50 people who attended a death penalty forum in Nashville sponsored by First Amendment Center and Vanderbilt University Law School.

The forum’s moderator, Vanderbilt Law Professor, Christopher Slobogin, played the role of a governor considering the adoption of a death penalty statute in his state. The distinguished panel, acting as his advisors, consisted of a number of experts in their field, including retired Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Adolpho A. Birch Jr.; President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Richard Land; Death Penalty Information Center Director, Richard Dieter; Nashville clergyperson and murder victim’s family member, Charles Strobel; along with representatives of the media, the Davidson County District Attorney’s Office, and an expert in forensic psychology.

While the discussion among the diverse panel members highlighted some of the traditional ideological dichotomies, it also provided a surprising level of consensus. The continuing racial and economic bias that plagues the administration of the death penalty system emerged as a concern for all panel members. The costs associated with implementing the death penalty and problems with the process surfaced as other reasons not to adopt a death penalty statute.  Perhaps the most troubling aspect of implementing the death penalty, for all panel members, was the prospect of innocent people being executed.  Panelists, such as Dr. Land and Father Strobel, who come to this issue from very different theological and philosophical perspectives, were in full agreement that if we are to have the death penalty, then we must strive for 100% accuracy. Anything less is unacceptable.

Ultimately, members of the panel more than fulfilled their duties and offered attendees a thoughtful and nuanced discussion. The panel’s willingness to engage the issues and the common ground that emerged offered this observer hope that rather than being irreparably divided on the topic of the death penalty, we might be much closer than we think.

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Tennessee Death Row Inmate, Glenn Mann, Dies

Glenn Bernard Mann was pronounced dead at 10:30 a.m. on Friday at Nashville’s General Hospital after a battle with cancer. Glenn was 39 years old. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 62-year-old Annie Lou Wilson in Dyersburg, TN, in 1993.

Though inmates do sometimes get sick and die on death row prior to their execution date, Glenn’s death was a little different for me. Glenn and I grew up in the same hometown, Dyersburg, and we are–were–the exact same age. I don’t think Glenn was in my grade, though I can’t be sure. I was in school with many of Glenn’s relatives–siblings and cousins–but don’t remember him distinctly. However, my mother, a school teacher, remembers Glenn as do some of the other teachers who taught during that time.

But, everyone in Dyersburg remembers the murder. I was graduating from college the same year that this murder happened.  I, a little, white girl raised by school teachers in a small West Tennessee town, did well in school, was given lots of opportunities to excel, and ultimately got a scholarship to attend Rhodes College in Memphis.

Glenn’s experience was different. Glenn, a young, black child raised in the same, small West Tennessee town, did not have the same opportunities as I had. His family didn’t have the resources mine did. He struggled in school. He ended up on drugs which led to the horrible crimes for which he was convicted and sentenced to death.   

I am not trying to make excuses for Glenn.  There is no excuse for the brutal rape and murder of Annie Lou Wilson. But I can’t help but think how differently everything might have turned out if Glenn had been given the same opportunities and nurture as me.  Two children born the same year in the same town with such very different stories and yet, still connected.   

Today I remember two lives that ended tragically and too soon. And, I am grateful that God’s mercy is so much bigger than all of the trauma that we inflict on each other or the tragedy we endure. I truly hope that all the lives that were intertwined with Annie Lou and Glenn will experience the peace that passes all understanding both now and in the days ahead.

Photo by Trey Ratcliff at Stuck in Customs 

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PBS set to air “Death By Fire” tonight at 9:00 P.M. ET

Executed by the state of Texas in 2004 for murdering his three young children, Cameron Todd Willingham and the evidence responsible for his death sentence will once again be put on trial tonight. The PBS documentary “Death by Fire” presents troubling aspects surrounding Willingham’s conviction, including the use of  dated forensic science by the state’s expert witnesses. This ‘expert testimony’ is so archaic that the Texas Forensic Commission claims it does not hold “any basis in modern fire science.”  This report, coupled with District Judge Charles Baird’s recent decision to review Willingham’s conviction, lends increasing credibility to the notion that in their haste to kill Cameron Todd Willingham, the state of Texas may have executed an innocent man.

For more information on Cameron Todd Willingham and the PBS documentary click here.

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How Much Is 20 Years Worth?

Michael McCormick spent 20 years on Tennessee’s death row fighting his wrongful conviction and death sentence until a jury found him not guilty in a new trial in 2007. 

Paul House remained on Tennessee’s death row for nearly 23 years, the latter part of those years confined to a wheelchair with multiple sclerosis, until his conviction and sentence were finally thrown out and all charges against him dropped in 2009.  Neither man has received compensation from the state of Tennessee.

These men spent the majority of their adult lives locked up–unable to work to support their families, to marry, to travel, to spend holidays at home with those that they loved.  And even though the new evidence demonstrating their wrongful convictions was enough for the U.S. Supreme Court and a Federal District Court Judge in the House case, and for a new jury in the McCormick case, the Governor must now exonerate them in order for them to receive compensation.

There is not enough money in the world to begin to address the grievous injustice that occurs when a person is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death–not only the injustice done to the convicted but to the victim’s family who must face the fact that their loved one’s killer may never be called to account.

I know that the legal process around these issues is very complex, I get that. But what more can Paul and Michael do? How do you travel back in time and prove you are innocent? Our system doesn’t work that way, or at least it is not supposed to. You are innocent until proven guilty.  The proof of their guilt has now been discredited, by DNA no less. 

It is the function of the state to protect society from people who commit violent crime, and I am grateful for all those individuals out there who are working to ensure my safety and the safety of those I love. I know it is a difficult job. However, the state also needs to be able to admit and remedy mistakes, just like individuals citizens of the state are expected to.  It is time for the state of Tennessee to admit that in these cases, mistakes were made, and two men spent decades locked up awaiting death for crimes the evidence now demonstrates they didn’t commit. 

No amount of money can make up for those lost years…no amount. But the state should at least make an effort.

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Photo of Joyce and Paul House (center) by James Staub

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