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Kelley Henry is a champion for death row inmates

Kelley Henry is a champion for death row inmates
Photo courtesy of Kelley Henry
Kelley Henry hadn’t been on an airplane for nearly seven months when she learned the Department of Justice had set an execution date for Lisa Montgomery, who was the only woman on the federal government’s death row.
It was a Friday in October when the warden of Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, called and put Montgomery on the phone with Henry and her co-counsel, Amy Harwell. Montgomery was crying and could barely speak.
“With Lisa, there was no just talking with her over the phone,” says Henry, the supervisory assistant federal public defender based in Nashville, Tennessee, who had represented Montgomery since 2012. Henry explains that as a child, Montgomery was sex trafficked by her mother and gang-raped by adult men, which exacerbated severe mental health issues that existed on both sides of her family. “We needed to physically observe her,” Henry says ....

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Tennessee inmate asks court to declare he can't be executed

Tennessee inmate asks court to declare he can t be executed
TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press
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FILE - This file photo provided by Tennessee Department of Correction shows Tennessee death row inmate Pervis Payne. Payne is asking a Memphis court to declare that he cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled. The petition was filed in Criminal Court on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP, File)AP
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee death row inmate s attorneys on Wednesday asked a court to declare that he cannot be executed because he is intellectually disabled.
The petition was filed in Memphis Criminal Court one day after Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill making retroactive Tennessee s law that prohibits the execution of the intellectually disabled. ....

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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
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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. ....

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Pervis Payne Petitions to Vacate His Death Sentence Under New Tennessee Intellectual Disability Law

Governor Bill Lee signed a bill curing a defect in
Tennessee law that had prevented death-row prisoners from challenging their death sentences on the basis of intellectual disability,
Pervis Payne’s (pictured) lawyers asked a Memphis trial court to vacate his death sentence.
On May 12, 2021, federal defenders representing Payne filed a
Petition to Determine Ineligibility to be Executed in the Shelby County Criminal Court seeking that the court “declare that Mr. Payne is ineligible to be executed because he is intellectually disabled.” Prior to the bill’s May 11 signing, Tennessee lacked a mechanism for prisoners to litigate their ineligibility for the death penalty if their death sentences had already been upheld on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 2002 decision in ....

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Justin Lafferty: Tennessee lawmaker falsely suggests infamous 3/5ths compromise was to help end slavery

Justin Lafferty: Tennessee lawmaker falsely suggests infamous 3/5ths compromise was to help end slavery
CNN
11 hrs ago
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
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State Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, watches the tally board during a vote in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Lafferty falsely declared that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for the purpose of ending slavery, commenting amid a debate over whether educators should be restricted while teaching about systematic racism in America. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
A Tennessee Republican lawmaker wrongly suggested on Tuesday that the infamous three-fifths compromise was an effort by Northern states to curtail the power of Southern slave-owning states with the ultimate aim of ending slavery, when in fact historians say it was the opposite, a dehumanizing concession that had the impact of gi ....

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