Entries tagged with “Paul House”

Apr 09, 2025

Paul House, Death Row Exoneree and Activist, Dies at 63

Paul​“Greg” House, who spent twen­­ty-two years on Tennessee’s death row before his exon­er­a­tion in 2009, died at the age of 63 on March 25, 2025, from com­pli­ca­tions of pneu­mo­nia fol­low­ing years of liv­ing with mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis. His case was one of the rare cas­es to meet the strin­gent​“actu­al inno­cence” excep­tion to habeas rules that today pre­vent many oth­er peti­tion­ers from even pre­sent­ing their claims of inno­cence in court. Mr. House was sen­tenced to death in…