I learned just about an hour ago that Mr. John Seigenthaler, a renowned journalist, champion of human rights, proud Nashvillian, man of faith, and friend of TADP died today at his home surrounded by the family he loved. He was 86.

I had the profound privilege of meeting with Mr. Seigenthaler on several occasions over the past few years as he offered his insight and guidance to me about TADP’s ongoing efforts to repeal the state’s death penalty.  He was passionate in his belief that the death penalty was an unfair, racially biased, costly policy that did not honor life but only compounded tragedy and compromised human dignity.

Though his plate was always more than full, he never hesitated to help those of us on the front lines of this work when we needed him.  In 2010, Mr. Seigenthaler helped TADP to organize an event at the First Amendment Center,  featuring both national and local experts on the death penalty.  He also  played a crucial role in the successful effort to garner clemency for Tennessee death row inmate Gaile Owens, who came within months of execution, before former Governor Phil Bredesen commuted her sentence in 2011.

TADP board members  Amy Sayward and Margaret Vandiver published a book  of essays a few years ago called Tennessee’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State.  And once again,  Mr Seigenthaler was there to help, providing a blurb for the back of the book stating:

The meaning of the admonition—four words most often forgotten, ignored or intentionally violated–seems so simple: ‘Thou shall not kill.’  Here nineteen essayists remind us that there have been those among us who understood the meaning—and who sought to give Life to The Law.

Thank you Mr. John Seigenthaler for giving life to “The Law.” We are profoundly grateful.

Photo provided by First Amendment Center.

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I was up early on a rainy Sunday morning this week to drive to Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, a small town tucked away on the Cumberland Plateau. The occasion was Pleasant Hill Community Church’s (UCC) annual Abolition Sunday, and I was invited to preach at the service.

This congregation has held an Abolition Sunday now since two of its members attended People of Faith Against the Death Penalty’s Kairos Conference a few years ago in Atlanta. This national conference encouraged congregations to get more involved in working to end the death penalty by educating their members and taking action.  The two individuals from Pleasant Hill took the challenge to heart, and now their congregation is actively engaged in working to end the death penalty in Tennessee with letter writing campaigns, educational forums, participation in TADP’s Justice Day on the Hill, and of course, Abolition Sunday!

And just a few weeks ago now, the Tennessee Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church passed a resolution asking the Tennessee General Assembly and Governor Haslam “to issue a stay on all Tennessee court ordered executions, and to seek alternatives ways to achieve healing and restorative justice for all those who suffer because of violent crimes.”  Through a blog post, Nashville area UMC Bishop Bill McAlilly challenged the recent reinstatement of the electric chair in Tennessee and urged United Methodists to contact their lawmakers expressing their opposition to the death penalty. This blog post led to a rally by Methodists from across the state in Nashville to show lawmakers and citizens alike that this is an issue about which people of faith have something to say.

This engagement by more and more congregations from various denominations statewide demonstrates that Tennesseans are deeply concerned about the recent decisions by our leaders concerning the death penalty and that we seek a better way forward.  It is time to redirect our focus from maintaining a broken death penalty system, to instead focusing our energy and resources on better supporting murder victim’s families, educating our young people, and treating those who struggle with mental illness and substance abuse–all of which will do far more to meet the needs and reduce the violence in our communities than the death penalty ever will.

If you want your congregation to become more educated and engaged on the death penalty in Tennessee, please let us know. We can provide you with the tools and resources to get started.

Photo of Pleasant Hill Community Church

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Last week three men were executed in Missouri, Georgia, and Florida—the first executions since Clayton Lockett’s botched execution occurred in Oklahoma. Meanwhile at least ten men on Tennessee’s death row face execution dates, the first scheduled for October 7, 2014.

Many of us are asking what more we can do. If you have been following the news over the last few days, you may have noticed stories in your local papers about the recent increases to the cost of higher education in Tennessee, perhaps as high as a 6 percent tuition increase facing students at UT Knoxville as well as tuition and fee increases ranging from 3.5 to 8.6 percent for students at Tennessee Board of Regents institutions. Even community college students at places like Chattanooga State and Cleveland State will see their tuition and fees increase by over 5 percent, as well.

I can speak anecdotally to the concerns college students have over tuition hikes: As a professor I always try to know what my students are experiencing outside of the classroom. Near the end of every term, I ask them what they plan to do over their academic break. Most will tell me about their job or internship that they have landed for the next few months. Some will reveal that working during the summer, even extra hours, will not make up the difference for what they need to attend school after the summer. Often the dollar figure they reveal that they need is relatively low – only a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars. I routinely wish I could go into my wallet and make up the difference for them. It is difficult to believe that just a few hundred dollars seemingly determines whether a student can return to school for their next semester, yet I know countless students who have transferred to a less expensive institution or some who have regrettably put their dream of a college education on hold.

Tuition hikes contradict Governor Haslam’s Drive to 55 initiative, which aims to “bring the percentage of Tennesseans with college degrees or certifications to 55% by the year 2025.” And though the Tennessee Higher Education Commission recommended $29.6 million in additional funding for 2014-15, because of falling state revenues, these funds were eliminated from the budget. There seems to be no better time than to revisit the massive, unwieldy, and radically expensive death penalty system. The cost of the death penalty extends far beyond that of the courtroom or prison system. Whether we acknowledge it or not, it affects us all, and soon it will affect us in ways we might not have foreseen.

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In a first for ABC News/Washington Post polls, a majority of Americans favor imprisoning convicted murderers for life to the death penalty.

When offered a choice between the two punishments, 52 percent of those polled picked life in prison without parole while only 42 percent choose a death sentence. Without the option of life without parole, support for the death penalty increased to 61 percent.

As the public becomes more educated about the continued failures of the death penalty system and states struggle with how to carry out executions, support for the death penalty will continue to wane.

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On May 24, a blog post by Bishop Bill McAlilly, bishop of the Nashville Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church, set off a wave of activity as he raised his concerns about the reinstatement of the electric chair in Tennessee.

Bishop McAlilly cited scriptural evidence from John’s gospel (Jn 8. 1-11), where Jesus encounters the woman caught in adultery and offers his position on capital punishment. Further, McAlilly reminded Methodists of their official denominational position against the death penalty, as detailed in the Book of Discipline, and he summarized his overall stance, thusly: “The problem with the death penalty is not whether lethal injection or the electric chair is more or less cruel. The problem is that it ignores the sacred worth of all human beings, and suggests that there are people unable and unworthy of redemption.” Bishop McAlilly concluded with a charge, adding, “I urge the people called United Methodist across the state to be in contact with their elected leaders to express our church’s opposition to the death penalty.”

Three days later, nearly seventy United Methodist clergy from West Tennessee and Nashville gathered at legislative plaza for a time of worship, including singing, prayers, silence, and a brief homily. The rather impromptu gathering has sparked plans for more worship services, deeper engagement with elected officials, and potentially a resurgent showing of Tennessee clergy willing to publicly challenge death penalty policies.

Photosource: http://methoblog.com/3_0/author/umreporter/

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Thursday night, May 22, Governor Bill Haslam signed into law a bill that would make the electric chair the execution method in Tennessee  if lethal injection drugs were not available.

A new poll from Vanderbilt reveals that the majority of registered voters in Tennessee support the use of the electric chair for executions.  Not surprising given that the electric chair bill breezed through the legislature with very little opposition. However, it’s the margin by which citizens support the electric chair that is noteworthy. When asked “Do you support or oppose using the electric chair for state executions?” thirty-eight percent opposed, while 56 percent supported (six percent answered “don’t know”/no answer). These figures are strikingly similar to the national numbers demonstrating slipping support for the death penalty, shown by Gallup (60 percent) and Pew Forum (55 percent).

One could assume that the overall support for the death penalty in Tennessee exceeds fifty-six percent, but by how much? If these recent poll numbers also reflect, at least to some degree, how Tennesseans feel about the death penalty generally, then 56% is far lower than what one might expect–a sign that the public is turning on the death penalty.

The reality is that the death penalty’s popularity is in decline,  particularly among younger Christians according to a poll by the Barna Group. Furthermore, as extreme methods are employed, or as executions are botched, the more average citizens are compelled to engage the issue.

Though the specter of returning to the electric chair should deeply trouble Tennesseans, we should also be deeply troubled by the possibility that one of 25 people who received death sentences over the last thirty years is innocent, as recently reported in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We should be troubled that the vast majority of inmates on Tennessee death row were too poor to hire their own attorneys at trial and that a person is three times more likely to get a death sentence in Tennessee if the victim is white.  We should be troubled that our state is spending millions to maintain this system, and now will spend even more to litigate yet another controversial method of execution–money we are not spending on victims’ services, or to support Tennesseans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or to educate our children.  We should be troubled that the signing of this bill will only further complicate the process and tangle up victims’ families in more legal wrangling.

But as troubled as we are, we are also even more motivated to educate Tennesseans about these problems and to watch support of  this system continue to falter.  Though we must be prepared as some ardent supporters of the death penalty engage in drastic tactics to shore the system up–like bringing back the electric chair–the truth is the system itself is dying and will not ultimately survive.  We can do better than this in Tennessee, and together, we will.

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The Clayton Lockett botched execution in Oklahoma stands as a seminal moment in the 21^st century death penalty debate. While the responses to the execution were legion, one interesting development was the national media’s focus on conservative voices opposed to the death penalty. This emerging number of conservatives presents an opportunity for new, broader coalitions on abolishing the death penalty than perhaps any other moment in U.S. history.

Notably, conservative stalwart Oliver North has voiced in a recent interview his concerns about the death penalty on grounds of innocence and whether or not it actually deters violent crime. North’s name recognition holds great sway within his political party, and his support signals how the issue is no longer the radioactive position it once may have been for conservatives.

Even Newsweek has taken note of this trending movement on the political landscape, featuring Marc Hyden of Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty in a recent article. Hyden’s work can be felt throughout the nation, the fruits of which help produce editorials such as this one from North Carolina Conservatives Concerned member and the chairman of the Nash County Republican Party, Mark Edwards.

Even retiring Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who is also a physician, expressed that while he believes the death penalty is a deterrent (without citing any research), he admitted, “I don’t like it. I wish we put everybody that had such a history as this gentleman [Lockett] behind bars working and doing things that would help them.” Coburn’s tepid support for the death penalty reveals the potential for substantial gains for death penalty organizations.

The national conversation is ripe for bipartisan people, who seek common ground upon which to end a practice that is unfairly applied, radically expensive, and too often, does not shield the innocent from prosecutorial mistakes. This same spirit of cooperation is taking hold in Tennessee, and we at TADP eagerly seek out new partners in this work.

Photosource: http://www.nndb.com/people/498/000024426/

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This week, in the wake of the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, two Latino evangelical leaders expressed their concerns over the future of capital punishment in the United States.

Samuel Rodriguez is a pastor in Sacramento and also serves as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference(NHCLC). Rodriguez addresses the issue of capital punishment through the concept of the Imago Dei, a theological concept that all people are created in the image of God and that all life must be protected. His response can be read here.

Gabriel Salguero pastors The Lamb’s Church in New York City and is president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC). Salguero focuses on criminal justice system reforms extending to the death penalty. Salguero’s response can be found here.

These two distinct voices not only present a spectrum of Latino responses to the death penalty but also serve as a reminder of the ways communities of color are disproportionately affected by capital punishment and their growing concern about the system’s failures.

(Photosource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tgEgnNxw0)

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Last night, while most of us sat down for dinner or settled in for the evening, the state of Oklahoma seemed to be concluding its most recent battle over the death penalty with the first of two scheduled executions for the night.

At 6:23 PM (CST) Clayton Lockett lay strapped to a gurney to be executed by lethal injection for the murder of 19-year old Stephanie Nieman. At 7:06 PM, forty-three minutes later, Lockett was pronounced dead due to a heart attack, and Charles Warner, the second inmate to be executed, was granted a stay for fourteen days.

The botched execution highlights the national problem with lethal injection, drug secrecy, and the disastrous consequences of state governmental dysfunction.  Oklahoma lawmakers believed Lockett’s execution, right or wrong, would mark the end of the bitter battle between Oklahoma’s branches of government: a battle marked by infighting between the state supreme court and lower courts, a move to impeach the supreme court justices by state legislators, and ultimately, Governor Mary Fallin’s order to proceed with the execution despite the court’s ruling. Instead, Oklahoma opened the proverbial Pandora’s box of utterly predictable consequences.

Regardless of one’s feeling on the death penalty, Americans must decide if they approve of an inmate’s execution becoming a “human science experiment.” Here in Tennessee, with ten executions looming and lethal injection secrecy laws similar to Oklahoma’s, we are confronted by the same possibility of botched executions. The prospect of expensive challenges to the state’s secrecy law, coupled with the specter of experimental drug cocktails – all carried out under the guise of due process – is a recipe for legislative gridlock and governmental incompetence. The Tennessee state legislature’s recent passage of a bill bringing back the electric chair as a means of executing individuals if drugs cannot be procured only demonstrates the level of desperation states are feeling as this system continues to crumble.

Andrew Cohen claims in his brilliant article for the Atlantic:

In killing Clayton Lockett this way, state officials thus elevated a convicted murderer to a status he surely did not deserve in life or would have ever obtained had his execution been preceded by acceptable levels of due process….  Oklahoma turned him into a symbol.

A symbol of what? Many things. What happened last night was the inevitable result of a breakdown in government in Oklahoma, where frustration at the continuing delay in the resolution of Lockett’s case blinded state officials to the basic requirements of due process.

The potential for many more Clayton Lockett’s exist, so long as states are not required to divulge the source and composition of their lethal injection drugs. This is a stark reality all Tennesseans should prepare themselves for as an October execution date rapidly approaches.

Photosource: http://kfor.com/2014/04/21/convicted-murderer-to-be-executed-tomorrow-with-drug-never-used-by-state/

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“The great majority of innocent people who are sentenced to death are never identified and freed,” so says University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel Gross, lead author of a study to account for those defendants who are innocent, yet not exonerated.

Gross and others published the article under the title “Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death” and it was released to the public on Monday. According to their findings, an estimated 4 percent of inmates receiving a death sentence or executed have actually been innocent. They estimate that with enough time and resources to review the innocence claims of inmates another 200 prisoners would have been freed over the thirty year period they studied (1974-2004).

One of the most interesting claims of the study concerns those who are not sentenced to death: The authors surmise that there is likely an even higher rate of innocence for this population, simply put, because the stakes are lowered when death is not sought. The authors put the matter starkly for the vast majority of innocent defendants who are neither executed nor exonerated: “They are sentenced, or resentenced to prison for life, and then forgotten.”

This study raises disturbing questions for Tennessee:  With our state fully complying with only seven of the 93 American Bar Association guidelines for a fair and accurate system and with four wrongfully convicted men now free after spending years on death row, how many more innocent people remain on Tennessee’s death row? Are any of the ten men that the state has scheduled to execute actually innocent? With this new evidence of the scope of our system’s dysfunction, how can we resume executions?

Photosource: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/12/accused_shooter_of_madison_cou.html

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