On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court confirmed that the Attorney General has filed motions to set execution dates for ...
The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...
Tennessee paused executions in 2022 ... The jury gave him the death penalty based on that evidence. He admitted he and the others in the group had guns, but he said he didn’t shoot anyone.
Missouri and Tennessee — the latter in all cases but rape). Votes in other states came close to ending the death penalty. However, between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement ...
Following Florida’s lead, Tennessee expanded its death penalty to child sexual assault, and Alabama is poised to do the same after the state’s House passed the measure in February.