Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Sep 05, 2019
Thirty-two years after he was sentenced to death in a trial tainted by prosecutorial misconduct, Tennessee death-row prisoner Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (pictured) has been resentenced to life in prison…
Race
,Dec 13, 2021
More than 34 years after having been sentenced to death in Nashville, Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman is coming off Tennessee’s death row. After a prolonged dispute between Tennessee Attorney Genera…
Race
,Nov 11, 2021
A Nashville judge has for a second time approved a plea deal that would remove Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman from Tennessee’s death row and resentence him to life without possibility of parole. On November…
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Aug 21, 2020
Declaring that “[r]acism still exists and has no place in society,” the Tennessee Supreme Court on June 25, 2020 directed its Access to Justice Commission (AJC) to create “a new initiative to identify and eliminate barriers to rac…
Mental Illness
,Representation
,Feb 24, 2011
A forthcoming article in the ABA Journal reveals the tragic admissions of failure by a well-known defense lawyer that led to a death sentence and potential execution of Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (pictured) in …
Race
,Upcoming Executions
,Sep 27, 2019
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (pictured) has asked the Tennessee Supreme Court to set execution dates for an unprecedented nine death-row prisoners, the largest execution request in the modern history…
Intellectual Disability
,Nov 17, 2022
The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office attempted to preserve a trial court ruling denying Byron Black’s intellectual disability claim, arguing before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) on November 8. …
Intellectual Disability
,Jun 08, 2022
A Tennessee death-row prisoner who county prosecutors agree is intellectually disabled is appealing a trial judge’s refusal to vacate his death sentence under a law designed to provide condemned prisoners a mechanism to enforce th…
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Upcoming Executions
,Feb 26, 2020
Tennessee has set two more execution dates for 2020, directed, advocates say, at men whose cases present unresolved issues of innocence, intellectual disability, and mental competency.On February 24, 2020, the Tennessee Sup…
Jun 26, 2003
A new Amnesty International report examines the case of Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for execution on June 18. His case involves questions of inadequate defense and prosecutorial misconduct. The report notes that af…
