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Attorneys Ask for More Time In Gaile Owens' Case

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Gaile Owens' attorneys have asked for additional time in preparing a defense against the setting of an execution date in her case. The state has requested that the Tennessee Supreme Court set an execution date for Owens after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her final appeal. Owens was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the murder of her husband. However, as in so many of these cases, the jury did not have critical mitigating evidence which could have resulted in a sentence of less than death, particularly evidence of the abuse that Gaile suffered at the hands of her husband and her acceptance of the state's plea offer before trial to life imprisonment. Read more here.

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).