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Paul House Released in Tennessee

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AP reports, "Tennessee inmate released after 22 years on death row," via Google News. A former death row inmate has been freed from a Nashville prison for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail. Paul House was released Wednesday to await retrial in the 1985 slaying of Carolyn Muncey. Two years ago the U.S. Supreme Court concluded he would not have been convicted based on DNA evidence that emerged years after his trial. The 46-year-old House, who has multiple sclerosis and cannot walk, left the prison in the back of a white sport utility vehicle accompanied by his mother. The Tennessean, in an earlier story, had, "Paul House will be released today." "I was in tears because I couldn't find an appraiser for a property bond," said his mother, Joyce House...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).