Last night I visited First United Methodist Church of Murfreesboro to serve as the guest speaker for the last class of an eight- week series on the death penalty.  And, as in most discussions about the death penalty, participants invariably tried to put themselves in the shoes of those who have lost loved ones to murder. They wondered how they would feel, react, respond to such a horrific event.  Most really couldn’t fathom such a reality, never mind imagine what they might need in terms of emotional, spiritual, financial, and community support. None of us ever wants to be in a position to know how we might respond, what we might need. It is just too devastating to think about.

Still, for far too many people, the issue is not theoretical but all too real. They are living in the wake of violent crime with all its ripple effects. A report just released from the Department of Justice determined that nearly 70% of people suffer severe social or emotional problems after being the victim of a violent crime, but only about 12% of those individuals receive help from victim services. Just over half of victims who suffer from such problems report the crime to the police.

This is unacceptable.  Though I certainly don’t claim to have all the answers in how to reach all these hurting people, I am convinced that the pursuit of the death penalty only shifts attention and resources away from the needs of the surviving families and instead focuses our energy and resources on the perpetrator, often for decades in pursuit of the death penalty before the sentence is carried out, if ever. What would it be like if instead, we relied on alternatives sentences that provided legal finality to surviving families much quicker while focusing our resources and attention on how to best meet their needs long-term and  to get help for all those impacted by violent crime.

If this was our course of action, we would actually serve to heal and restore lives and communities, not only helping those most impacted by the violence but also helping to reduce possible future violence by the walking wounded whose needs for healing were never met. Some of these very wounded individuals will end up in our jails and prisons only after more damage has been done.

The state of Maryland recently took part of the savings from repeal of the death penalty and allocated it to assist surviving family members of murder. This is a positive first step in identifying the needs of victims’ families and getting them the help that they need. Though Tennessee has wonderful advocates working on behalf of crime victims everyday, imagine how much more these advocates could do with greater resources and support. With more budget cuts looming in out state, Tennesseans must decide what is most important to us, what we most value, and what is best for our communities. This report gives us all something to think about.

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On September 25th, the Tennessee State Supreme Court delayed the scheduled execution of Billy Ray Irick, originally slated for October 7, while litigation is pending.  This means that Irick will not be executed on October 7 and that his execution will be rescheduled. TADP is grateful for this temporary reprieve and has postponed the vigil scheduled for that day in both Nashville and Memphis.

As we await and see how the courts will rule, we continue to encourage all TADP supporters to sign and share the open letter to Governor Haslam in order to gather as many signatures as possible before a new date is set.

TADP will keep you posted as more information becomes available.

Photograph from  the Tennessean.

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Today we take time to remember all those who have lost their lives to murder as well as their grieving family, friends, and communities. TADP is deeply grateful for the individuals and organizations in Tennessee that work to support and advocate for victims of violence and their families and for those whose work focuses on crime prevention and making our communities safer for everyone.

We at TADP are continually humbled by the stories of the surviving family members of murder victims in our state. We hope that in our work, we can broaden the conversation to go beyond how to punish those who offend and instead focus our energy and resources more on how to support those who have been so deeply offended.  The needs of murder victims’ families are many–emotional, financial, spiritual–and don’t end when a trial is over.  For some families, cases go unsolved and they live everyday without any answers.

Today is about remembering those whose lives were taken senselessly and too soon while also reflecting on how we as a society can offer families so much more as they struggle to put their lives together again.  Take a moment to say a prayer, light a candle, or sit in silence to honor these individuals today.

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On September 22 in Nashville, Bryan Stevenson received the 2014 Belmont College of Law Champions for Justice Award. Stevenson works on a number of criminal justice issues, including the death penalty and sentencing reforms as the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, AL). Stevenson’s tireless work, particularly on behalf of people of color suffering disproportionately in the current criminal justice system, earned him this latest accolade.

Stevenson encouraged the packed chapel of students, administrators, faculty, and community activists to place themselves within the proximity of those who are suffering in order to truly understand the wounds inflicted by poverty, incarceration, and lack of opportunity. He acknowledged that  the work to alleviate such suffering will not be easy, and as Mrs. Rosa Parks once told him when she was visiting Montgomery, “it will make you tired, tired, tired.”  Nevertheless, Stevenson called people of faith to be hopeful in their work, giving examples of transformation, even in unlikely people and places, that occur all the time when people get educated or connected to those who suffer under the current system. Stevenson’s final charge was for all attendees to remember that no person can be categorized by the worst thing that they have done–there is more to everyone that that. For people of faith, who hold to the power of redemption and work for criminal justice reform, Stevenson’s reminder was a powerful concluding word.

We applaud Belmont Law School for honoring Bryan Stevenson, even as our state prepares to execute eleven men. The courts continue to deliberate about Tennessee’s lethal injection protocols, the state’s secrecy around the source of the lethal injection drugs, as well as the possible use of the electric chair. The clock is ticking as Billy Ray Irick’s execution is set for October 7, 2014.  If you have not yet signed the open letter to the Governor encouraging him to halt all executions until system can be reviewed please do so here.  TADP is planning a vigil should this execution move forward to occur in Nashville at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution at 5:30 on Oct. 7 and in Memphis at noon on at First United Methodist Church, 204 N. Second St. 38105.

Also, if you wish to know more about Bryan Stevenson check out Equal Justice Initiative as well as Stevenson’s new book Just Mercy set to be released on October 21, 2014. You can also listen to Stevenson’s TED Talk here. Stevenson will be back in Nashville at the Re-Visioning Justice Conference at Vanderbilt University as a keynote speaker, along with Howard Zehr, from April 17-19, 2015, hosted by the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership.

Photo source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Stevenson

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On Tuesday, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown walked out of a North Carolina prison where they had spent the last 30 years. McCollum, the state’s longest serving death row inmate was freed after DNA connected the crime to someone else. He had been on death row for over three decades – since he was 19 years old. Leon Brown, McCollum’s brother, was also released.

The only evidence tying McCollum and Brown to the crime were coerced confessions that law enforcement obtained from the disabled teens (who, even as adults, have the intellectual ability of children)–the only evidence tying them to the crime. McCollum first told police that he knew nothing about the murder, but at 2 a.m. on Sept. 29, 1983, after five hours of intense interrogation, he signed a confession written by police. Soon after, his younger brother, Brown, also confessed.

McCollum and Brown were originally prosecuted by Robeson County District Attorney Joe Freeman Britt, whose nickname “World’s Deadliest DA” was earned after he won nearly 50 death sentences during his 12 year career as chief prosecutor. At that time, there were no laws exempting juveniles or those with intellectual
disabilities from the death penalty.

In 1991, courts granted the brothers new trials because of improper jury instructions. Brown’s murder charge was dismissed, but he was convicted of rape and given a life sentence. McCollum was again convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

In 1994, When the Supreme Court decided not to review a death row case out of Texas, Justice Harry A. Blackmun dissented, arguing the death penalty was cruel and unusual and therefore unconstitutional.
Scalia responded to Blackmun’s dissent by referencing the McCollum case and arguing that the death penalty was appropriate for the most heinous crimes, “For example, the case of an 11-year-old girl raped by four men and then killed by stuffing her panties down her throat,” Scalia wrote in Collins v. Collins. “How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection compared with that!”

Justice Scalia’s “case in point” for the use of the death penalty in the U.S. is now a “case in point,” for why the system cannot be trusted to determine who lives and who dies as McCollum and Brown become the 145th and 146th individuals exonerated and freed from death row nationwide.

Had it not been for unrelated execution delays in the state of North Carolina, these men would likely have already been executed. Read more about these exonerations.

Photo source: http://www.wral.com/after-30-years-in-prison-for-murder-half-brothers-walk-free/13946572/

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George Barrett, a Tennessee lawyer who long fought for civil rights, died on Tuesday, August 26, at the age of 86. “The Citizen” as he often called himself, defended student demonstrators in the 1960’s  fighting for integration, and decades later, led the defense working for clemency for Tennessee death row inmate, Gaile Owens.  She ultimately was granted clemency and paroled in 2011.

George was always willing to share his insights, experience, and wit with us at TADP, and we are grateful for his legacy and his outspoken opposition to the death penalty.

With the recent death of John Seigenthaler and now George Barrett, we recognize the profound loss felt by our state as well as the contributions that these men made in creating a more more just and equitable place for us to live.  As we mourn, we also can be inspired to take up the mantle and continue the work before us.

Tennessee stands on the precipice of 11 executions, an unprecedented number. We all “the Citizens” of this great state must  act now to keep these executions from happening.  If you haven’t already, please sign the open letter to Governor Haslam, asking him to stop these executions in order for a review of this state’s flawed death penalty system, as outlined by the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty, can be conducted.

Read more about George Barrett in the Tennessean.

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With just over forty days until the state of Tennessee is scheduled to resume executions, the Federal Public Defenders Office filed suit on behalf of eleven inmates scheduled to die in the next eighteen months. Kelley Henry, stated, “Today, on behalf of our clients who face imminent execution, we have asked the Chancery Court to allow us to challenge the electric chair as a method of execution because even when the chair works exactly as it is intended, it is a torture device.”

The state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to reinstate the electric chair should lethal injection drugs be unavailable for those scheduled to be executed. The bill was passed in April 2014, ironically during Holy Week, which Christians celebrate as the days leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The inmates are already involved in a lawsuit to reveal the drugs that would be used to kill them as well as the names of the execution team members. Now the suit has been amended to include the use of the  electric chair in their list of challenges.

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Lethal injection protocols remain at the center of America’s death penalty debate. On August 11 a federal judge in Ohio extended the moratorium into 2015 given the persistent questions surrounding its two-drug protocol of the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone. The ruling effectively postpones executions scheduled for September, October and November. This move by federal judge Gregory Frost is coupled with a report on Tuesday (August 12) concerning the botched execution of Dennis McGuire on January 16, 2014, also in Ohio. An independent examiner, Dr. Kent Diveley, an anesthesiologist at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, stated “To a degree of medical certainty this was not a humane execution.” Dr. Diveley referenced Ohio’s two-drug protocol and concluded:

“Neither of these drugs combined in the doses can be depended upon to produce a rapid loss of consciousness and death,” the anesthesiologist said. “It is possible when this combination of drugs is used for lethal injection there will be a delay of several minutes before the inmates loses consciousness preceding death.”

Tennesseans should take note of all that is happening in Ohio: With eleven executions – the latest one announced today – scheduled in the next sixteen months, Tennessee’s protocols will be put to the test over and over again unless something is done. The first step toward action came Monday as attorneys for the state are challenging the right of ten death row inmates to know the identities of the execution team and the drugs that will be used to kill them, as ordered by Davidson County Chancery Court Judge Claudia Bonnyman.

Ohio has learned the hard way that it must examine its death penalty system, and Tennessee should follow suit. The state of Tennessee could make the same moves that Ohio has in order to avoid the specter of botched executions. Tennessee could take the necessary time to fully study the issue, as a matter of policy, rather than speeding ahead with the process.

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Joseph Wood execution lasted over 100 minutes, as he – depending upon who you ask – snored or snorted until his death at 3:49 p.m. after being fully sedated at 1:57 p.m.

According to Mauricio Marin, a media eyewitness to the execution, “I continued to scribble on my state-issued notepad, counting the gulps and gasps of the man on the gurney. I counted 660. This went on for over an hour and a half.” Or as Wood’s attorneys put it, “He has been gasping and snorting for more than an hour.” According to Jeanne Brown, a family member of the victims, “I don’t believe he was gasping for air; I don’t believe he was suffering. It sounded to me like was snoring.”

Snoring? This is the state of the death penalty in America now: These are the euphemisms we resort to rather than confront the mechanism before us: what Andrew Cohen calls “a state-sponsored, judicially sanctioned human experiment that went terribly wrong.”

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, however, assured the watching world of her state’s competency to carry out executions: “One thing is certain, however, inmate Wood died in a lawful manner and by eyewitness and medical accounts he did not suffer,” she said. “This is in stark contrast to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims — and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.”But as Radley Balko stated, via Twitter, “Yes, it’s true that ‘Wood’s victims suffered too.’ But perhaps we shouldn’t look to murderers when establishing our baseline for humaneness.”

To Cohen’s point, something did go wrong, though, long before Wood was strapped to the gurney. Over the past weekend, Wood was granted a stay of execution by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, all revolving around Arizona’s lethal injection protocols. On Monday, the full court upheld the stay. On Wednesday, however, hours before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the execution to carry on as planned, despite the evidence of previously botched executions this year in Ohio and Oklahoma. For instance, Arizona’s two-drug protocol of midazolam and hydromorphone was the same drug combination administered by the state of Ohio to Dennis McGuire, who gasped for nearly half an hour in January.

Wood’s execution began at 1:52 p.m. Wood was sedated at 1:57 p.m. At 2:02 p.m. he began to breathe and gasp. By 3:02 p.m. he was confirmed to still be alive. Forty-seven minutes later he was declared dead during his attorneys’ attempt to secure an emergency stay of execution.

The United States of America is waking up to the realities of the death penalty, and unfortunately, these awakenings come after botched executions in Ohio, Oklahoma, and now Arizona. Which state will be next to wake up in such an unsettling fashion? Will it be Tennessee which like Arizona boasts a lethal injection secrecy law? Will Tennessee’s leaders wake up to acknowledge the brokenness of the system? Will they approve of the ten scheduled executions, with fingers crossed behind their backs, that their state will not join the shameful company of those states that ignored the clear warning signs?

Will they appear to wake up, as Arizona momentarily did, only to groggily hit the snooze button one more time?

Snoring.

Snorting.

When we can no longer tell the difference, maybe it’s time to call the whole thing off.

(Photo source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7089/full/441008a.html)

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On July 16, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California’s death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Judge Carney, an appointee of President George W. Bush, serving in the staunchly conservative Orange County, concluded the death penalty was arbitrarily administered, not a deterrence to violent crime, and riddled with systemic delays. To put this into perspective, since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, over nine hundred people have been condemned to die. Only thirteen have been executed. Ninety-four have died of natural causes, and thirty-nine had their cases overturned without the state resentencing them. Nearly 750 people remain on death row, yet only seventeen are cleared to be executed. For this reason, Carney has ruled the timing to be cruel and unusual. In his decision, he stated that no rational jury would support the sentence of “life in prison, with the remote possibility of death,” which is, in essence, what California practices. Currently, the national average time to execution sits at nearly sixteen years. One might think that this is due to endless appeals used by inmate’s attorneys to drag out the process. However, the bulk of the time in California is spent fulfilling mandated procedures, according to Carney, summarized here by the National Law Journal:

• Death row inmates wait three to five years for counsel to be appointed for their direct appeals, he said. After direct-appeal issues are briefed, two to three years are spent waiting for arguments to be scheduled before the California Supreme Court.
• In the next step—state habeas review—at least eight to 10 years elapse between the verdict and appointment of habeas counsel. After that counsel is appointed, underfunding hampers investigation of potential habeas claims, Carney said.
• After habeas briefs are submitted, another four years go by before the state Supreme Court denies the inmate’s claims in a generally conclusory opinion that will slow review of the inmate’s federal habeas claims, he continued. After filing a federal habeas petition, many inmates, because of deficiencies in the state’s process, must go back to state court to exhaust state claims.

These procedures are not the result of clever “lawyering” or Hail Mary appeals, but rather the norm for death row cases. Of course, there are those whose answer to the length of the process might be to shorten it. But, it is also true that a shortened process will only create more risk for the execution of the innocent, a grave injustice that has likely already happened even with the long system we have now. We at TADP hear over and over again from those who are philosophically supportive of the death penalty that if the death penalty is not going to be practiced in a timely fashion then we shouldn’t have it. And since we can’t even do it fairly and accurately with a long, protracted process, the question must be, “Should we do it at all?” (Photo source: http://blog.kir.com/archives/2009/12/mr_ruehle_you_a.asp)

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