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Tennessee legislators talking reform of death penalty administration

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, headlined "Tennessee's death penalty laws need major reform, legislative group says," legislators in the volunteer state are talking about how to improve the state's administration of capital punishment. Here are details from the start of the article: Tennessee's death penalty needs major reform to ensure that people facing execution get fair trials, said members of a legislative study committee which just ended 16 months of analyzing how capital crimes are prosecuted in this state. The study committee, which included people for and against the death penalty, was asked to look for ways to make capital punishment more fairly and accurately applied across the state. Four bills related to the recommendations have been introduced and are sponsored by the committee's chairmen, Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).