Tennessee executes first prisoner since 2009

Tennessee Executes Billy Ray Irick in First Execution Since 2009

Over sharp dissents by justices of the U.S. and Tennessee Supreme Courts and lingering questions about the prisoner's history of mental ...

Billy Ray Irick execution: Tennessee carries out lethal injection

Tennessee executes Billy Ray Irick, first lethal injection in state since 2009 ... Death row inmate Billy Ray Irick died at 7:48 p.m. CDT Thursday ...

Tennessee executes first prisoner since 2009, despite plea by bishops

Tennessee carried out its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday evening. Governor Bill Haslam allowed the lethal injection to ...

Billy Ray Irick - Wikipedia

William Ray Irick was an American convicted murderer from Tennessee who was sentenced to death and executed for the 1985 rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula ...

Tennessee executes its first inmate in nearly a decade

It was the first execution in Tennessee since December 2009, when inmate Cecil Johnson received a lethal injection for the killings of three ...

Tennessee executes its first inmate in nearly a decade | Fox News

Tennessee carried out the execution Thursday of a man condemned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, marking the first time ...

Tennessee Executions - TN.gov

Rye was Governor during the first execution by electrocution. From 1916 until 1960, 125 persons were executed by electrocution in Tennessee. In 2000, lethal ...

Tennessee carries out its 1st execution in nearly a decade - Yahoo

Inmate Billy Ray Irick, 59, received a three-drug injection at a maximum-security prison in Nashville and was pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m., ...

Billy Ray Irick execution: Quick facts about Tennessee's death row

If executed Thursday, Billy Ray Irick will be the first inmate put to death by Tennessee since 2009.

Death Penalty In Tennessee: A Look At Executions Since 2000

Tennessee is set to execute its first inmate in nearly a decade, Thursday night ... Johnson: Died by lethal injection on December 2, 2009 ...

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CHRONOLOGY | TN.gov

2009 - Cecil Johnson was executed on December 2. Johnson was convicted of three counts of. First Degree Murder in Davidson County. 2010 - Governor Bredesen ...

List of people executed in Tennessee - Wikipedia

This is a list of people executed in Tennessee. Until 1913, there were no records of the numbers or names of the people who were executed.

Last East TN man to be executed was convicted of rape in 1957

The pending execution of Billy Irick on Thursday will be the first in Tennessee since 2009. ... Prison in Morgan County for killing two men in ...

Billy Ray Irick execution leaves five inmates from Knox on death row

Billy Ray Irick became the first inmate executed in Tennessee in nearly a decade Thursday night - and the first from Knox County since 1960.

Tennessee execution: Edmund Zagorski wants to die by electric chair

He. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A day after an inmate on death row in Tennessee told prison officials he would prefer to be executed using the ...

Two more executions set for Tennessee this year - WBIR.com

The execution of Billy Ray Irick was the first in Tennessee in nearly a decade, and several more death row inmates are scheduled to die ...

3 executions set for Tennessee this year; last was in 2009

Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor said James Hawkins, Billy Ray Irick and Sedrick Clayton are slated for execution. The ...

Tennessee - Death Penalty Information Center

The state went from 1960-2000 with no executions. Tennessee “Firsts”. In 1838, Tennessee became the first state to give juries discretion in sentencing those ...

All Tennessee executions since 2000 - WKRN

A total of 13 death row inmates have been executed by the State of Tennessee since 2000.

Lee calls off execution of Tennessee's oldest death row inmate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's governor announced Thursday that he was calling off what was to have been the state's first execution since ...