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Gaile Owens' Attorneys Argue for a New Sentence

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Today Gaile Owens' attorneys argued to the Tennessee Supreme Court that her execution date should not be set, and instead, that her death sentence be commuted to life. Gaile was sentenced to death by a Memphis jury for hiring Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband in 1985. But, the jury never heard testimony concerning the severe abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband nor did the jury know that she was willing to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Gaile has expressed remorse for her husband's murder and is the only inmate in Tennessee prison history to receive a death sentence after accepting a prosecutor's offer to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Gaile is a model inmate at the Tennessee Prison for Women where she works as a clerk...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).