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More on the Tennessee Case of Gaile Owens

By Steve Hall

SaraKay Smullens posts, "A Letter to Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen: Mercy for Gaile Owens," on Huffington Post.  Smullens is a family therapist and educator.Dear Governor Bredesen,I write to ask that you offer mercy to Gaile Owens.You well know that, after the Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear the case of the 57 year old Gaile Owens, who has spent the last 25 years in prison for setting her husband's murder in motion in 1985, only you stand in the way between the rest of her life spent in jail, which Ms.Owens is asking for, and her execution by lethal injection on September 28th. If Gaile Owens is killed, she will be the first women to be executed by your state since Eve Martin was hanged in 1820. You know, too, that the facts involving Ms...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).