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By Steve Hall

Paul Griffith writes, "A new collection of essays denounces Tennessee?s longstanding ambivalence over the death penalty," for the current Nashville Scene.  It's a review of  Tennessee's New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State , edited by Amy L. Sayward and Margaret Vandiver.  It's published by the University of Tennessee Press (303 pp., $24.95.) Since the death penalty was reinstituted in 1976, Tennessee has executed only six people. That's far fewer than most Southern states but far too many for the essayists in Tennessee's New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State, which seeks to explode the myth of retributive justice and expose the state's uneven application of capital-sentencing law...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).