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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After a quarter-century on death row, Gaile Owens walked out of prison Friday.
The 58-year-old Memphis woman came within two months of being executed last year before her sentence was commuted — not because she was innocent but because then-Gov. Phil Bredesen thought her punishment was excessive.
Owens admitted to hiring a hit man in 1985 to kill her husband and the father of her two children. Supporters who tirelessly made the case to release her say she was an abused wife who has rehabilitated herself in prison.
