Entries tagged with “Nicholas Sutton”
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Feb 18, 2020
As Execution Dates Approach, Tennessee Prisoners Challenge Execution Method
Tennessee has scheduled three upcoming executions, despite ongoing litigation surrounding the use of its lethal injection protocol and problems with its lethal-injection drugs that have led five prisoners to opt for death by electrocution. Attorneys for five other death-row prisoners, including Oscar Smith, who has an execution date of June 4, 2020, have filed a federal suit presenting new evidence challenging the state’s execution protocol. Tennessee uses a three-drug protocol of midazolam, a…
Issues
Victims' Families
,New Voices
,Jan 22, 2020
Corrections Personnel, Victims’ Families, Jurors Urge Clemency for Tennessee Death-Row “Lifesaver”
Saying that Nicholas Sutton “has gone from a life-taker to a life-saver,” lawyers for the Tennessee death-row prisoner filed an application for clemency with Governor Bill Lee on January 14, 2020. The clemency application, which requests that Lee commute Sutton’s sentence to life without parole, contained affidavits of support from seven Tennessee correctional officials, members of the victims’ families, and five of the jurors in the case. Sutton currently faces a February 20, 2020 execution…