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Yes...The System is Broken

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

I recently read a story that appeared as a news report from Channel 6 WATE in Knoxville. The title of the story, "Many Say Tennessee Death Penalty System Broken."Of course, I was hopeful that the story would cover a number of the many problems highlighted by the Tennessee Study Committee including the lack of adequate defense attorneys and services for those on trial for capital murder, the lack of recorded interrogations, the lack of open file discovery procedures, the disproportionate numbers of those with severe mental illness on death row, the lack of more reliable eyewitness identification procedures, the lack of preservation and proper storage of biological evidence, etc.Instead the story focused on only one problem the Committee addressed: the length of time that people await execution in Tennessee, an average of 20 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).