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Choosing life in Tennessee

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

After 18 years on death row, Richard Taylor today was sentenced to life in prison.  Taylor was severely mentally ill. Christopher Hill of the ACLU’s capital punishment project brings us this: NASHVILLE ? A severely mentally ill man who spent 18 years on death row and whose conviction and death sentence were reversed by a Tennessee appeals court in March was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Richard Taylor, twice forced to stand trial despite his severe mental illness, agreed to the sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to the 1981 murder of a Tennessee prison guard ? a crime committed only after prison officials stopped giving Taylor his anti-psychotic medication. Taylor is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and Kelly Gleason, an attorney with the Office of the Tennessee Post-Conviction Defender...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).