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Pervis Payne s Attorneys Ask to Stop His Execution Over Intellectual Disability

Pervis Payne s Attorneys Ask to Stop His Execution Over Intellectual Disability Newsweek 3 hrs ago © PervisPayne.org Pervis Payne in Riverbend Maximum Security institution in Tennessee. Attorneys for Pervis Payne, a 54-year-old Tennessee inmate on death row, have asked a court to declare that he cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled. Their petition was filed in Shelby County Criminal Court on Wednesday a day after Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed bipartisan legislation, inspired by Payne s case, that makes retroactive a Tennessee law that prevents death row inmates with an intellectual disability from being executed. The Supreme Court ruled such executions unconstitutional in 2002, finding that they violate the Eighth Amendment s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Inmates Are a High Risk for COVID Transmission, but a Low Priority for Tennessee

Inmates Are a High Risk for COVID Transmission, but a Low Priority for Tennessee A state panel won t prioritize prisoners for vaccination, fearing a ‘public relations nightmare Tweet Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, which houses Tennessee’s death rowPhoto: Daniel Meigs Associated Press reporters Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise were able to get a hold of documents showing that the state panel that decided what order Tennesseans get vaccinated in “acknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a ‘public relations nightmare.’” And so inmates were ranked last for vaccines. If we’re ranking nightmares, being trapped in a small cell in a long row of small cells stuffed with people while a deadly virus with as-yet-unknown long-term health implications passes through the prison seems like it would be way higher up on the list than “re

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