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Death row inmate's mother in painful waiting game

Death row inmate's mother in painful waiting game By DWIGHT LEWIS ? January 10, 2008 function NewWindow(height,width,url) {window.open(url,"ShowProdWindow","menubars=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,height="+height+",width="+width); } Sixty-six-year-old Joyce House is in a waiting game, and it's no fun. In fact, "it's hell,'' she says.She's waiting to see if the state is going to appeal a ruling handed down Dec. 20 that orders condemned state prisoner Paul Gregory House, her son, to be released unless prosecutors begin a new trial within 180 days after the order becomes final. That ruling becomes final if the state attorney general's office does not appeal it by Jan. 22. OAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1'); "I went to see Paul yesterday (Sunday) and I asked him if he was excited,'' Joyce House told me over the telephone Monday from her home in Crossville...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).