Entries tagged with “Donald Middlebrooks”

Victims' Families

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May 14, 2025

Murder Victims’ Family Members Ask Tennessee Governor Lee to Halt Scheduled Executions

On May 8, 2025, a group of fam­i­ly mem­bers who have lost loved ones to vio­lence in Tennessee deliv­ered a let­ter to Governor Bill Lee’s office request­ing that he halt the state’s upcom­ing sched­uled exe­cu­tions. In their let­ter, the group of 51​“vic­tims, sur­vivors, and fam­i­ly mem­bers of those impact­ed by vio­lent crime” argue the death penal­ty does not act as a heal­ing tool for vic­tims and takes away from state-fund­ed resources that could help with their heal­ing. For these…

Mar 25, 2025

Records Show Tennessee Officials Have Spent Nearly $600,000 of Taxpayer Funds for Lethal Injection Drugs Since 2017

According to records request­ed by *The Tennessean*, between 2017 and 2025 the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) spent near­ly $600,000 of tax­pay­er funds obtain­ing drugs for lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tions. Specific infor­ma­tion about the drugs’ sources and ori­gins remains unknown because of the state’s secre­cy pro­vi­sions. During this time peri­od sev­en exe­cu­tions were car­ried out: five by elec­tro­cu­tion, two by lethal injec­tion. The TDOC ini­tial­ly refused to respond…

Executions

Upcoming Executions

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Mar 05, 2022

Tennessee Sets Three Execution Dates for Most-in-Nation 5 Pending Executions in 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued death war­rants set­ting exe­cu­tion dates for three pris­on­ers, bring­ing to five — the nation’s‑high — the num­ber of exe­cu­tions pend­ing in the state in 2022. On February 22, 2022, the court set exe­cu­tion dates of August 18 for Byron Black, October 6 for Gary Sutton, and December 8 for Donald Middlebrooks. The court had pre­vi­ous­ly set exe­cu­tion dates of April 21 for…