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The Tennessee commutation

via Steve Hall Tennessee Governor Commutes Death Sentence of Gaile Owens The commutation document is here. The Tennessee Governor’s Office has issued the news release, “Bredesen Commutes Death Sentence.” Governor Phil Bredesen today commuted the death sentence of Gaile Owens to life imprisonment. The Governor announced the commutation at the Capitol today, citing the extraordinary sentence compared to similar Tennessee cases, that Ms. Owens consistently admitted her guilt and that she had accepted a conditional plea agreement for life imprisonment prior to her original trial as the reasons for granting the commutation. On January 14, 1986, Owens was convicted of accessory before the fact to first-degree murder in the murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the beating death of her husband, Ron Owens, in 1985 Share/Bookmark continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).