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Nashville's Tennessean carries the AP report, "Committee offers plan to improve death penalty system."A legislative committee studying the death penalty in Tennessee has recommended the creation of an authority to help make sure cases are handled fairly and efficiently.The committee was created last year after the state legislature decided the death penalty system in Tennessee needed to be examined for fairness and accuracy. On Monday, the committee approved a resolution that asks lawmakers to create a statewide authority whose duties would include identifying lawyers experienced in capital cases, raising the standard pay for such attorneys, and monitoring their caseloads.Thomas Lee, a local attorney on the committee, said such an authority would help ensure that "trials are done right the first time...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).