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The Sunday Memphis Commercial Appeal reports, "Reforms of Tennessee's capital punishment process face tough trials," by Michael Kelley.More than half of the 184 persons sentenced to death in Tennessee since capital punishment was restored in 1977 have had their sentences set aside. Convicts on death row spend an average of 10 years there. One has managed to delay his execution since 1978. Twenty-six men have spent 20 years or more fighting the ultimate punishment. Four have been executed. One inhabitant recently died there with no help from the state. A legislative study committee headed by state Sen. Doug Jackson, D-Dickson, and Rep. Kent Coleman, D-Murfreesboro, will make another attempt this year to reform Tennessee's system for moving death penalty cases through the investigation, trial court and appeals processes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).