USA - At approximately 10:00 a.m. this morning, Paul House was released

At approximately 10:00 a.m. this morning, Paul House was released from Lois M. Deberry Special Needs Facility. An anonymous donor provided Joyce House, Paul's mother, with the bail money in order for Paul to be released into the custody of his mother. On June 27, Senior Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood reduced the bond from $500,000 to $100,000 during a special hearing in Union County. House, now 46, has spent nearly 23 years on Tennessee’s death row since his conviction for the murder of  Carolyn Muncey. House still faces retrial in October and will remain under house arrest until that time. (See also April 7, May 5 and 28, 2008).