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| State requests execution dates be set in capital cases |
| By wreg.com- Eryn Taylor |
| Published: 02/16/2018 |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The state of Tennessee submitted a motion on Thursday asking the courts to set the execution dates for eight death-row inmates before June 2018. “The State, through its Department of Correction, is required by law to carry out death sentences by lethal injection,” the document said. “But its ability to do so after June l, 2018, is uncertain due to ongoing difficulty in obtaining the necessary lethal injection chemicals.” According to the paperwork, Donnie Johnson, Stephen Michael West, Edmund Zagorski, Leroy Hall, Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman, Charles Walton Wright, Nicholas Todd Sutton and David Earl Miller have each been sitting on death row for years, stalling the executions through the appeals process. Read More. |
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