Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In Tennessee, hanging was a legal method of execution until 1913, when executions were suspended for two years. In 1915, the electric chair was introduced and used for 45 years. Between 1960 and 2000, the death penalty however was not applied in Tennessee. The death penalty was reinstated there in 1975, but executions did not resume until 2000 ...
Retrieved May 2, 2024. "Dad who stomped infant son's head 'like an eggshell' is scheduled to be executed in September". i45NOW. May 22, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024. "Missouri sets execution date for inmate who claims innocence". KCTV 5. June 4, 2024. Retrieved June 4, 2024. "Garcia Glen White to be executed for the 1989 deaths of twin girls ...
Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2023-10-25. 'I did not kill them' condemned man says. The Tennessean, February 3, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-04. 'I commend my life into your hands' Tenn. inmate sings hymns as execution is carried out. Fox 17 Nashville. Retrieved on 2019-05-17.
Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital ...
January 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM. Tennessee could become one of the few states to permit capital punishment for rape of a child under 12. House Bill 1663, sponsored by House Majority Leader William ...
November 1, 2023 at 12:23 PM. ... Pike, 47, is the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the last person sentenced to death in Tennessee that was 18 at the time of their crime.
Associated Press. Retrieved July 20, 2023. ^ Gattis, Paul (July 21, 2023). "Alabama Death Row inmate James Barber executed for 2001 Madison County murder". al.com. Retrieved July 21, 2023. ^ Lieb, David A. (August 2, 2023). "Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factory". Associated Press.
A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general to argue certain capital cases, a power that lawmakers shifted away from locally ...