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Death Penalty Study Committee Makes Recommendation

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

The Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty met on December 1 for several hours to begin voting on recommendations to the legislature. Though much was discussed, disappointingly, not much was recommended.The only recommendation which made it out of the Committee on Monday was a recommendation to create a state policy asking that law enforcement agencies record custodial interrogations. Though a step in the right direction, the recommendation is not a "law" but a "policy" which means that if recording does not occur, the interrogations are still admissible in court. The provision in the recommendation which would have instructed the trial judge to inform the jury that a recorded interrogation is required by statute was struck by the representative of the DA's conference without much discussion...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).