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Proportionality Questions in Tennessee

By Steve Hall

"The uneven hand of justice in TN murders," is the title of John Seigenthaler's report in the Tennessean.  Here's the beginning of this must-read:There was no obvious link between the two recent national headlines.One said: "Woman who killed preacher husband gets custody of their three children."The other read: "Woman on death row loses her last appeal."There are many striking factual similarities ? and one stark difference ? in the tragic stories of Mary Winkler and Gaile Owens, two Tennessee women who killed their abusive husbands 20 years apart.Court documents in the separate cases recite the similarities:? Both women, raised as fundamentalist Christians, suffered severe physical, sexual and emotional abuse from the spouses they killed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).