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Paul House is Being Retried for a Murder that DNA Says He Didn't Commitnew
Rather than acknowledge defeat -- never mind admitting error -- the very same prosecutor who tried House for capital murder 23 years ago announced he was going to take one more shot at convicting the ailing man for murder. But this time, he'd have to come up with a different motive, given that the theory he argued the first time -- that House killed to cover up rape -- had been shredded by the emergence of scientific evidence.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
06-27-2008 |
Crime & Justice
What Happened to Tabitha Tuders?new
Five years ago, the 13-year-old walked to the bus stop -- and her family hasn't heard from her since. As more time elapses without an arrest, the chances of cracking the case diminishes.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
04-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Paul House is Free at Lastnew
Saying that the 22-year incarceration of Paul House was the result of an unfair trial, a federal judge this week ordered the state to release the man who DNA evidence and the U.S. Supreme Court say probably didn't do the crime.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
04-11-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Tennessee Keeps Exonerated Inmate Locked Upnew
Suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis, the 46-year-old Paul House remains on the state's death row nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared "no reasonable juror" would convict him given the evidence now available.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
03-11-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Death Row Lottonew
In Tennessee, who gets the death penalty is a grim game of chance.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
02-29-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Dead Againnew
Yet another study of Tennessee's death penalty falls flat after legislators refuse to extend the review an extra year.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
02-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Is Robert Cooper Attorney General or House Keeper?new
Tennessee's top prosecutor makes a last-ditch attempt to keep an ailing and likely innocent man on death row.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
01-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Death Becomes Us?new
Tennessee tries to keep its machinery of death in motion as U.S. Supreme Court considers the legality of lethal injection.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
11-16-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Death Penalty Study in Tenn. is Set to Beginnew
Despite the findings of many previous studies, critics say the state has failed to make any meaningful changes to its capital justice system -- but advocates of the latest effort to study Tennessee's death penalty assure this time will be different.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
10-12-2007 |
Crime & Justice
To Have, But Not To Holdnew
How the grisly murder and dismemberment of a young man led a well-off pilot to wed a woman serving life for the crime.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
10-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Resisting Execution Reform in Tennesseenew
Some critics blame the attorney general for status quo in lethal injection protocols.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
09-07-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Is Paul Reid Sane Enough to be Executed?new
Tennessee's prosecutors are trying to prove just that, despite it only being one year after their own expert determined he was delusional and incompetent.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
08-24-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Closer to Freedomnew
Attorney General changes course, agrees a federal judge should resolve the controversial Paul House case.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
07-20-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Free Paul House, Urge Lawmakers and a Federal Judgenew
What will it take for Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen to pardon a death row inmate even the U.S. Supreme Court believes is innocent?
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
06-29-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Grocery Store Pulls GLBT Paper from Newsstandsnew
Are religious freaks to blame?
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
06-08-2007 |
Media
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