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Nashville City Paper has the editorial, "House case shows more flaws in death penalty system."Given his death sentence, the mound of evidence supporting his innocence and a U.S. Supreme Court formal recognition of those facts, it is a mystery how Paul House stayed in jail for the last two years. House spent 23 years on Tennessee?s death row. New evidence in the murder case of Union County woman Carolyn Muncey appears to prove House?s innocence. Specifically, DNA evidence shows rape could not have been a motive for House to kill Muncey as prosecutors successfully argued in the mid-1980s. The DNA found on Muncey was that of her husband, according to advocates for House. The highest court in the land over two years ago agreed no jury would have convicted House given the modern-day evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).