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 ...

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 ...

TN Court upholds attorney general's role in death penalty case

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Tennessee Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court's ruling that had excluded the Office of Attorney General from ...

Tennessee Authorizes Death Penalty for Child Sexual Assault in ...

Both laws contradict longstanding Supreme Court precedent holding the death penalty unconstitutional for non-homicide crimes. Tennessee's law ...

Tennessee appeals court rules death penalty review law constitutional

... death penalty review cases is constitutional, reversing a lower court's ruling ... Tennessee Supreme Court. The law went into effect in ...

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

A judge has ruled that the appointed Tennessee Attorney General cannot intervene on behalf of the state in the case of a death row inmate ...

Tennessee joins Florida in passing law to allow death penalty for ...

The legislation passed despite a Supreme Court ruling against the measure (Kennedy vs. Louisiana) in 2008 which declares the death penalty a ...

Death penalty opinions shift as Tennessee reworks protocol - Axios

The investigation found officials participating in executions since 2018 hadn't properly tested lethal injection chemicals — a protocol that ...

A Survey of Tennessee Supreme Court Death Penalty Cases in the ...

' Those cases have required the court to interpret seven of the twelve aggravating circumstances set forth in the. Tennessee death penalty ...

The Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report

As the United States Supreme Court has recognized, these goals are particularly important in cases in which the death penalty is sought. Our system cannot ...

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

The law involves ...

Commentary: Tennessee's Commitment to Racial Justice Tested as ...

In oral argument in the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on June 9, Slatery's office never addressed the evidence of prosecutorial misconduct ...

in the supreme court of tennessee - Juvenile Law Center

Pike's death sentence, imposed for a crime committed when she was 18 years old, is disproportionate under the. Eighth Amendment and Article I, § ...

Payne v. Tennessee - Wikipedia

The admission of a victim impact statement does not violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment. Court membership. Chief Justice ...

Tennessee Supreme Court upholds execution method - WBIR.com

The unanimous opinion, written by Chief Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins, says death row inmates bringing the challenge failed to show that the ...

Death penalty in Tennessee: Court rules on lethal injection drugs

Tennessee death row inmates brought a court case to challenge the state's use of a controversial drug in lethal injections.

Cases - Death penalty - Oyez

A case in which the Court found that sentencing a mentally disabled person to death is a violation of the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause ...

Tennessee's Death Penalty: Costs and Consequences

Appointed attorneys represent more defendants than public defenders in all three types of cases. (See pages 17-18.) • Tennessee Supreme Court ...

TN Supreme Court knocks down death penalty challenge - WBIR.com

A group of nearly three dozen death row inmates is suing Tennessee's Commissioner of Correction Derrick D. Schofield and Riverbend Maximum ...

CAPITAL CASE EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 4, 2020 ...

The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The ...