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An Update on Paul House

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The Tennessean reports, "With son on death row, House's mom became his crusader," written by Chris Echegaray.In a bedroom of a white ranch-style home, Joyce House, mother of death row inmate Paul Gregory House, has a touch lamp on a night table next to a bed. One tap and the lamp lights up. It's easily reachable for a man who has multiple sclerosis. The bed is raised high enough for Joyce House to help maneuver her son, who uses a wheelchair. couple of paintings hang on the bedroom wall, a television is near the foot of the bed, set up with a DVD player ? a technological advancement Paul House doesn't know about. The bedroom is like the rest of the house: quiet, simple and immaculate. After he spent 20-plus years behind bars for a 1985 murder, Joyce House was expecting her son to come home when a U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).