Tennessee Attorney General Pursues Death Sentences and ...

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery requested that the Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for nine death row prisoners, ...

Judge Rules Tennessee Statute Which Expands Attorney General ...

On July 17, 2023, a Shelby County Criminal Court judge struck down a new statute, passed by the Tennessee Legislature in April 2023, ...

Tennessee Supreme Court to weigh death penalty proceedings

A dispute between Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and locally elected district attorneys over who controls some post-conviction proceedings in ...

Tennessee - Death Penalty Information Center

Tennessee becomes the first state to turn away from the traditional mandatory death sentence, granting juries discretion in sentencing those convicted of ...

Law letting Tennessee attorney general argue certain capital cases ...

A Tennessee appeals court has ruled that a state law giving the appointed state attorney general authority to argue certain death penalty ...

Law Letting Tennessee Attorney General Argue Certain Capital ...

A Tennessee appeals court has ruled that a state law giving the appointed state attorney general authority to argue certain death penalty cases

Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law

Inmate Larry McKay is asking a judge to disqualify Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti from representing the state in McKay's effort to get a ...

Tennessee Appeals Process - TN.gov

In a direct appeal, a defendant can raise questions about the validity of his or her conviction and/or sentence in a brief filed in the Court of Criminal ...

Spring 2020 - American Bar Association

Spring 2020 edition of Project Press, featuring Supreme Court & death penalty news, notable case outcomes, and events & training.

Judge strikes down law allowing Tennessee attorney general to ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers violated the Tennessee Constitution when they passed a law this spring giving the state attorney ...

Judge strikes down law allowing Tennessee Attorney General to ...

The appointed Tennessee Attorney General cannot argue certain capital cases on behalf of the state as in the case of a death row inmate who ...

The Federal Death Penalty System: Supplementary Data, Analysis ...

These cases are reviewed by a committee of senior attorneys, and the Attorney General personally makes a final decision whether to seek a capital sentence. The ...

Law letting Tennessee attorney general argue certain capital cases ...

A Tennessee appeals court has ruled that a state law giving the appointed state attorney general authority to argue certain death penalty ...

Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law

A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general over some capital ...

Judge strikes down law allowing Tennessee attorney general to ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers violated the Tennessee Constitution when they passed a law this spring giving the state attorney ...

State Attorney General Seeks Execution Dates for Nine Death Row ...

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to set execution dates for nine more men, including the ...

Court battle in Tennessee over Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman's execution is ...

Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk negotiated a deal to eliminate the death penalty given to Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman after he was convicted ...

Tennessee's Death Penalty: Costs and Consequences

(See pages 31-33.) Incarceration. The annual incarceration costs for Tennessee death row inmates are the same as other maximum-security inmates ...

Tennessee Death Row inmate Pervis Payne will avoid execution

The Shelby County District Attorney's office is dropping its pursuit of the death penalty against death row inmate Pervis Payne.

Death Penalty In Tennessee - TN.gov

Capital punishment has existed intermittently in Tennessee since becoming a state in 1796. For centuries, hanging was the method of execution.