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: Capital Defense Weekly

More Recommendations from the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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via TCASK: During a three hour meeting yesterday, the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty worked through more issues and produced more recommendations. The most dramatic of the recommendations made yesterday was the approval of legislation to recommend that the Tennessee General Assembly create an independent commission to oversee capital defense services in Tennessee. This commission would be charged with training attorneys and setting standards for those representing defendants in capital cases, monitoring workloads and performance, determining necessary defense services and resources, setting compensation rates, and recruiting qualified attorneys to serve as appointed counsel. Senator Doug Jackson in his support of this recommendation stated, “Are we seriously going to say that capital defendants in Tennessee are getting good representation when attorneys appointed to defend these cases actually lose money and can’t pay their light bills?” Tom Lee, Committee member appointed by the Governor, stated, “What we have in Tennessee is a system that doesn’t work very well for anyone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).