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| Tenn. death row inmate getting free PR assistance |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/28/2005 |
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A Nashville, Tenn., public relations firm is donating its talents to a Tennessee death row inmate's appeal. Nashville-based McNeely Pigott and Fox, one of the South's largest PR firms, is working on behalf of condemned killer Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman and his lawyer, Bradley MacLean, for free. Abdur'Rahman is fighting for his life in federal appeals that argue prosecutorial misconduct and a state court case that challenges lethal injection. Abdur'Rahman, then known as James L. Jones, was sentenced to death in 1987 for killing a Nashville drug dealer. He says he has no memory of what happened but his accomplice testified against him after cutting a plea deal. Abdur'Rahman claimed much later he was the victim of a dishonest prosecutor who concealed evidence, and ineffective defense counsel who failed to present evidence of his childhood of abuse and mental illness. |
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