Attorney General seeks execution dates for nine, including two Memphis men

By , Daily Memphian Published: September 25, 2019 1:57 PM CT

The Tennessee Attorney General is asking the Supreme Court to set executions for nine people, including two Memphis men convicted of multiple murders. But the move will run into opposition from a federal public defender who called the situation a “request for mass executions.”

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Herb Slatery Kelley Henry Pervis Tyrone Payne Tony Von Carruthers
Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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