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Clemency for Steve Henley

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

The state of Tennessee plans to execute Steve Henley at 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 4th. The citizen response to this planned execution has been incredible.-6 total phone banks in Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville-Over 2000 phone calls made to ask citizens to call Governor Bredesen and ask him to grant Steve clemency-Hundreds of phone calls made to the Governor-Nearly 1000 clemency cards delivered to the Governor-2 opinion editorials-2 letters to the editorThe grassroots response has been strong because Tennesseans are troubled by the circumstances of this execution. The two opinion editorials, Rea Frey in the Tennessean, and Rev. Jodi McCullah in the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle, highlight these problems. Read Rea's by CLICKING HERE...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).