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bones, there s a victim who s waiting. justice delayed is justice denied. a lot of victims we ve been talking to are angry at that mindset, they feel accountability needs to happen now and they lost their lives while kits sitting in backlogs but everyone can get behind wanting to end the backlog and the work you re done is important. keep the victim first, you can point fingers later. another thing tennessee has been in the news for, reinstated the use of the electric chair in death penalty cases. what do you say to people who say it s too barbaric. it is barbaric, but as i said the other day, either we re going to have the death penalty or not going to have it. that s another form of torture for the victim. if john doe is going to die, john doe is going to die. what the tennessee government did, i m not going to prolong the search for a new medicine or whatever. i don t support the death penalty, but if you re going to have it, it s on the books,

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tenure, his office handled upwards of 30,000 cases and often faced accusations of hard line tactics. harry connick, in death penalty cases i don t think he would have offered a deal. he would have said no, you can t have it. he was very aggressive and he wanted to lock them up all together. jim williams took great pride in his numerous death penalty convictions. he even kept a miniature electric chair on his desk. jim was regarded as one of the most aggressive prosecutors. he recalled sliding up behind defendants and buzzing in their ears to mimic the buzz of electricity. thompson s carjacking trial lasted only two days. the testimony of the lagarde children was enough to convict thompson of armed robbery. he was given the maximum sentence. co-hardly stop eating.

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chance, and again, kennedy provided them with some support. and that turns out to be a trend. in a court that s basically split down the middle, 4-4, kennedy is the ultimate swing vote. the one ring to rule them all. kennedy has voted with the majority in 5-4 rulings more often than any other member of the court. and the roberts court has had more 5-4 decisions than any supreme court, ever. in texas in 2003, kennedy sided with the liberals in striking down anti-sodomy laws. in 2008, he shellacked the bush administration and congress for abusing the rights of people accused of terrorism. but he s also sided with conservatives in death penalty cases and in a 2007 late-term abortion case, he sided vigorously with the right. and of course, there s bush v. gore, where he and the former ultimate swing vote, sandraday o connor, helped usher bush into the white house. one ring to rule them all, and a juror of one for the rights of

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while edward lee elmore sat on death row, waiting for his appeal to move forward, diana holt took on other death penalty cases. in one she was able to get a last-minute stay of execution over the objections of assistant attorney general donald zelenka. zelenka was determined to discredit diana. he dug through her past looking for anything to get her off the case. in april 2000, he called her to a deposition. it was at the attorney general s office. there were six attorneys across the table from me and all of them lined up like this. looking. don zelenka asked have you ever done anything in the course of

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