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Fairness Committee Focuses on Defense

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

The Fairness subcommittee of the Tennessee Death Penalty Study Committee met for several hours yesterday in a thoughtful, yet at times frustrating, discussion on the importance of creating an independent authority in Tennessee to oversee capital defense services. Since its inception, the Death Penalty Study Committee has heard over and over again how the issue of inadequate defense is not only unfair to defendants but also increases the length of the process and costs of the death penalty because of the ensuing appeals. The Fairness subcommittee whose membership includes Rich McGee (appointed by the Post Conviction Defenders' Commission), District Attorney General Al Schmutzer (DA's Conference), Bill Redick (Tennessee Justice Project), Mark Stephens (Public Defenders' Conference), Elizabeth Ryan (Attorney General), Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).