AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES GOV. BREDESEN TO GRANT CLEMENCY FOR STEPHEN WEST

West ‘Is the Poster Child for Clemency,’ Human Rights Organization Says(Washington, D.C.) – Amnesty International has mobilized its worldwide membership to call on Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to grant clemency for death-row inmate Stephen West, who is scheduled to be executed on November 9.  The human rights organization maintains that serious issues surrounding West’s case render him ineligible for the death penalty. In a letter to the governor, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) Executive Director Larry Cox wrote, “Mr. West may be executed despite his history of severe child abuse,