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Today's Tennessean looks at the state's indigent criminal justice system and its application of capital punishment in an editorial and three OpEd essays. Let's begin with the newspaper's editorial, "Tentative steps being taken toward fairness in the system."After a number of years in which Tennessee has seen legal twists and turns, costly confusion and probable miscarriages of justice in capital murder cases, there is a sliver of hope for improvement. It is tragic that it took lives being lost in the process, but for the sake of people on Tennessee's death row; members of the legal system; elected officials; and the public at large, we look to the legislative study committee on the death penalty for a more just system in the future...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).