Policy Issues
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Upcoming Executions
,Sep 14, 2020
Black Legislators, Legal Associations, Faith Leaders, and Community Groups Call for DNA Testing/Intellectual Disability Hearing that Could Take Pervis Payne Off Tennessee’s Death Row
Leaders in the Tennessee African-American community are urging Governor Bill Lee and the state and federal courts to halt the execution of a Black death-row prisoner who may be both innocent and intellectually di…