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PAUL HOUSE IS EXONERATED

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

As I was getting ready for work today I walked out of the bathroom to hear Paul House?s name on the Channel 4 News. I ran to the screen only to catch a segway into the next news brief. Shrugging it off, I figured it was a quick update to the June 1 retrial or another trial extension request, as it's happened twice before. I figured I could check the story online when I made it into the office.Much to my surprise, as I walked in the door of TCASK this morning, Joyce House was calling on our phone. ?We have good news today,? she said. ?Paul?s been exonterated! We talked for a moment of the relief and joy that the House family is feeling today after 23 years of frustration and fighting for Paul?s life.After what has seemed like months or years of testing of the DNA evidence preserved from the 1985 rape and murder of Carolyn Muncey, District Attorney Paul Phillips finally requested for the murder charges held against Paul House to be dropped...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).