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Ed Bryant: “We are not talking about everybody that is convicted of a crime that has to do this, but you know I always talked about…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995
We are not talking about everybody that is convicted of a crime that has to do this, but you know I always talked about on the campaign trail that we had I believe about 300 people on death row in Tennessee. And I told everybody if they could go back and look at each one of those individual cases and the underlying facts of the case, you know, each one of those is a death penalty case and when you read about it in the newspaper, it just hits you in the stomach, what an atrocious, horrible, heinous crime it is. These are the types of cases we are talking about, not just everything that comes along.
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Ed Bryant
Tennessee
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Discussing the death penalty and specific cases on death row in Tennessee.

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