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Promptness Study Committee Meets

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Yesterday the Promptness subcommittee of the Tennessee Death Penalty Study Committee met for four hours discussing issues from the length of time taken for post-conviction proceedings to exempting those with severe mental illness from the death penalty.A resolution was introduced by Verna Wyatt of "You Have the Power", a Tennessee victims' right organization, which encouraged Tennessee's judicial branch to comply with a current Tennessee law stating that post-conviction procedures should be kept to a one year time limit. Wyatt's concerns are valid ones. She stated that if victims' families are told that these proceedings will be complete in a year's time and instead they go on for several years, victims' families suffer great pain and frustration...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).