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- 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
- MAY 16, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
People sentenced for any criminal offence would be...
People sentenced for any criminal offence would be able to petition a court for a DNA analysis if there is reasonable probability the evidence would clear them or shorten their sentences, under legislation approved by a Senate panel
- 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
- FEBRUARY 28, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death...
A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death row inmate Stephen Michael West, less than 10 hours before his scheduled execution by electrocution
- FEBRUARY 17, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Texas parolee Robert Leach, 38, was sentenced to death...
Texas parolee Robert Leach, 38, was sentenced to death for killingSarah McBride, 69, on July 8, 1999
- JANUARY 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not...
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not have to stay on death row much longer because the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for him