Attorneys for Pervis Payne seek to stop execution; claim he’s intellectually disabled
The Shelby County man, convicted in the 1987 slayings of a Millington woman and her young daughter, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3.
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Pervis Payne Tennessee Supreme Court
Yolanda Jones
Yolanda Jones covers criminal justice issues and general assignment news for The Daily Memphian. She previously was a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.
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