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- JANUARY 1, 2003TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Between 2001 and 2002 two bills were proposed for the...
Between 2001 and 2002 two bills were proposed for the introduction of a moratorium on executions and for the setting up of a commission to study the application of the death penalty
- OCTOBER 5, 2002TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A Cocke County Circuit Court jury returned a death...
A Cocke County Circuit Court jury returned a death sentence against Jonathan Stephenson, 38, convicted 12 years ago of murdering his wife
- AUGUST 23, 2002TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 17, 2002TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
After 14 years on death row, Edward Leroy Harris was...
After 14 years on death row, Edward Leroy Harris was ordered to serve 3 life sentences
- APRIL 8, 2002TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 1, 2002TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Tennessee forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Tennessee forbids the execution of the mentally retarded and juvenile offenders
- DECEMBER 4, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A handful of death row inmates could get their death...
A handful of death row inmates could get their death sentences reduced to life imprisonment thanks to a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling that says both the Tennessee and federal constitutions bar executing anyone who is mentally retarded
- APRIL 26, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Federal marshals have been ordered to seize Tennessee's...
Federal marshals have been ordered to seize Tennessee's electric chair
- APRIL 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A House subcommittee voted to divert until next year...
A House subcommittee voted to divert until next year legislation that would declare a moratorium on executions until issues surrounding its fairness could be studied
- APRIL 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence of Charles Eddie Hartman, convicted...
The death sentence of Charles Eddie Hartman, convicted in 1983 of kidnapping and murdering a 16-year-old girl, Kathy Nishiyama on Nov
- MARCH 30, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die...
23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, sending his case back to a Memphis court for a hearing on "newly discovered evidence
- MARCH 24, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A death row inmate from Memphis will get a new sentencing...
A death row inmate from Memphis will get a new sentencing hearing because his lawyer failed to do anything during sentencing in the man's 1982 trial for a double murder, a federal appeals court said yesterday