US EditionPaul House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was freed, has died.
- Paul Greg House, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1986 murder of Carolyn Muncey in rural Union County, Tennessee, and spent two decades on Tennessee's death row, died on March 22 at the age of 63.
- House's conviction and death sentence stemmed from the killing of his neighbor, Carolyn Muncey, but new DNA evidence years later cast doubt on his guilt.
- The U.S. Supreme Court concluded in 2006 that House likely would not have been convicted based on the new DNA evidence, leading to his release from prison custody at the Lois Deberry Special Needs Facility on July 2, 2008, after an anonymous donor posted his $100,000 bond.
- Upon his release, House said he felt pretty good and looked forward to going home and eating chili verde and pizza, while his mother, Joyce House, said they were floating around on Cloud Nine, and Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, a dissenting judge in an earlier appeal, expressed concern that the wrong man may be executed.
- After charges were dropped in May 2009, House, who had lost the ability to walk and lived with multiple sclerosis, spent 17 years with his mother, Joyce, campaigned against the death penalty with groups like Witness to Innocence, and died peacefully of complications from pneumonia with the knowledge that his innocence had been recognized.
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My Mother LodePaul House, who spent two decades on Tennessee’s death row before he was freed, has died.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul “Greg” House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, and later campaigned against the death penalty, died on March 22 at the age of 63, according to his longtime…
Paul House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was freed, has died.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul “Greg” House, who spent two decades on Tennessee’s death row before he was finally freed, and later campaigned against the death penalty, died on March 22 at the age of 63, according to his longtime attorneys. “Mr. House’s innocence was indefatigably championed by his attorneys and by his mother, Joyce House,” a statement from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee reads. “Although Mr. House spent far too man…
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