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Faith Statement: Catholic Campaign to End Capital Punishment

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

"I renew the appeal... for a consensus to end the death penalty."-- Pope John Paul IISt. Louis, MO1/27/99Death penalty factsApproximately 3,300 people are on death row in the US; 89 of them in Tennessee.Since executions were reinstated in 1977, over 130 death row inmates have been exonerated; 2 in Tennessee.90% of Tennessee?s death row inmates could not afford to hire their own defense at trial.Inmates convicted of murdering a white person are more than 3 times as likely to be sentenced to death than those convicted of murdering an African-American.Capital punishment is a far more expensive system than one whose maximum punishment is life without parole, diverting resources from real crime prevention efforts. At least 5-10% of those on death row suffer from severe mental illness while at least 100 of those executed since 1977 suffered from some form of mental illness...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).