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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 6, 2019

Marcia Gaile Owens, whose death sentence was commuted by Gov. Bredesen in 2010, died last weekend after being found unresponsive at a friend’s home, the Tennessean reports. Owens was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill her husband in 1984. Her attorneys and other high profile Nashvillians argued she should be spared the death penalty given that she had suffered years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband. After Bredesen commuted her sentence, she was granted parole in 2011. Funeral information is not yet available.