AltWeeklies Wire
Runaway Trainnew
Alleged rapes, beatings and now a suicide attempt at a youth treatment facility in Tennessee.
Nashville Scene |
Elizabeth Ulrich |
02-29-2008 |
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
The Other Volznew
Eric Volz's little sister scuffled with her illegal boyfriend and his brother. Now she's having them deported.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
01-18-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Courthouse Interpreters Accused of Giving Bad Advice to Spanish-Speaking Defendantsnew
Legalese is tough for anyone to understand. But if you don't speak English and go to court in Nashville, some pretty significant facts get lost in translation. Not least of these is the right to plead not guilty.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
11-27-2007 |
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
Examining the Machinery of Deathnew
Tennessee's governor is defiant, but executions could stop for months while courts decide constitutionality of lethal injection.
Nashville Scene |
Jeff Woods |
10-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Tennessee's 'Certain Hubris' Toward Execution Protocolsnew
During four days of testimony, lawyers successfully painted Gov. Phil Bredesen's much-vaunted review of lethal injection procedures this year as a sham whose basic purpose was, not to ensure that executions are humane, but to help the state survive court challenges.
Nashville Scene |
Jeff Woods |
09-24-2007 |
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
