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Reports on the closely divided appeals court decision in Cincinnati, Ohio in the death penalty case of Paul Gregory House who was accused of murdering his neighbor Carolyn Muncey in Union County, Tennessee in 1985. Claim that House raped Muncey then murdered her because his semen matched his blood type; Use of DNA testing to prove that the semen belonged to Muncey's husband Hubert; Witnesses who accused Hubert Muncey of the crime.

The article reports on the liquor law in Tennessee, which requires businesspeople to live for two years in the state before they can operate liquor stores.

WASHINGTON The Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville has about 600 voting members. None of them are women, and none of them are black. But one of them is a federal judge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There were flashes of incredulity and anger from justices at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as they considered whether Tennessee prosecutors had committed misconduct in obtaining and defending a death sentence against a man who murdered a Memphis couple in 1980. Gary B. Cone admitted to the murders, and the only defense he offered at his trial was that he had been in an amphetamine psychosis. Prosecutors worked hard to discredit the defense, calling it ''baloney.'' Years later, though, it turned out that prosecutors had withheld evidence from Mr. Cone's lawyers that would have supported his claim. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the move of judge D'Army Bailey to hear abortion petitions from pregnant teenagers because of the refusal of other judges to hear the petitions in Tennessee.

Reports on controversy surrounding the actual drugs used for lethal injections. Claims the apparent tranquility of an inmate undergoing the death sentence may be the result of the medication induced paralysis; Tennessee ban of Pavulon or pancuronium bromide for the euthanization of pets; Lawsuit against Pavulon's use in human death cases brought by Abu-Abdur'Rahman; Suggestions of alternative medications; How a state chooses the drugs it will use.