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Nashville’s lead prosecutor says a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should not face execution

Nashville’s lead prosecutor says a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should not face execution. District Attorney Glenn Funk made the assessment in a filing this week that Byron

Nashville’s lead prosecutor says a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should not face execution

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville's lead prosecutor says he agrees with defense attorneys that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should not face execution. District Attorney Glenn Funk made the assessment in a filing this week that determines Byron Black should instead face a sentence of life in prison.

District Attorney Glenn Funk made the assessment in a filing this week that Byron Black should instead face life in prison.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Nashville's lead prosecutor says he agrees with defense attorneys that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should

Nashville’s lead prosecutor says a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should not face execution. District Attorney Glenn Funk made the assessment in a filing this week that Byron Black should instead face life in prison. The inmate’s attorneys are arguing the 65-year-old should be spared under a 2021 law that made Tennessee’s prohibition against executing people with intellectual disabilities retroactive. Previously, Tennessee had no mechanism for an inmate to reopen a case to...

GOTO, Nagasaki Prefecture--For Nicholas Sutton, a banyan tree he passed by on his daily stroll on Fukuejima islet here is more than just an old piece of timber. 

Pervis Paynes death sentences for the 1987 killing of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter were vacated by a Tennessee judge.

The state of Tennessee says its time to set an execution date for Pike. Her lawyers say 18 is too young for killers to get the death penalty.