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After 22 Years on Death Row, Paul House is Cleared

Paul House?s name has finally been cleared, bringing to an end two decades of struggle for freedom after a wrongful conviction in Tennessee. House (pictured above with his mother, Joyce) served more than two decades on Tennessee?s death row before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that he was entitled to a new hearing. He was freed last July, but was under house arrest facing a new trial until charges were dropped May 12. House, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and is confined to a wheelchair, is looking forward to a trip to California for his grandfather?s 90th birthday. He was 23 when he was sent to death row and is 47 today. "This gives me a life,? he told CNN last week. ?The only life I had was prison life, and that was nothing to be happy about...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).