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An Update on Gaile Owens

By Steve Hall

Today's Memphis Commercial Appeal reports, "Tennessee Methodists ask Bredesen to halt execution of Bartlett native Gaile Owens," written by Richard Locker.The Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church is asking Gov. Phil Bredesen to spare Bartlett native Gaile Owens from her scheduled Sept. 28 execution for the hired murder of her husband in 1985. Tennessee Methodists approved a resolution at their annual conference last week that both reaffirms the church's opposition to the death penalty and calls for the commutation of Owen's death sentence to life in prison.And:"In no way, shape, or form do we condone the decision that Gaile made that caused the death of her husband," Rev. Brian Rossbert, a Nashville pastor who co-sponsored the resolution, said Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).