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Tennessee Governor Grants Clemency; Paul House Not on List

By Steve Hall

Today's Tennessean reports, "Bredesen commutes Edward Harbison's death sentence, pardons 22 others; Governor also exonerates 1."  It's written by Brian Haas. Gov. Phil Bredesen on Tuesday pardoned 22 people, exonerated one and commuted the sentences of four, including convicted murderer and death row inmate Edward Harbison. More than 1,000 people sought clemency from the outgoing governor, hoping to have crimes pardoned, sentences shortened through commutations or outright erased by an exoneration. And: He was convicted in 1983 and has been on death row for years during a rollercoaster series of challenges to the constitutionality of the state's use of lethal injection. He has been scheduled for execution multiple times over the past decade, most recently for Feb...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).