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The Fight Over Tennessee's Death Penalty Goes On


The Fight Over Tennessee’s Death Penalty Goes On
The cases of Pervis Payne and Sedley Alley highlight issues of intellectual disability and possible innocence
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Pervis Payne was less than a month away from his Dec. 3 execution date when Gov. Bill Lee called it off. Prison officials had already come to see Payne on death row to ask him to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair. When Lee granted Payne a temporary reprieve on Nov. 6, he didn’t cite the serious and longstanding questions about Payne’s guilt or what his attorneys say is well-documented intellectual disability — the reprieve came “due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” ....

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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
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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: Petition argues ineligibility for death penalty


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Shortly after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a new measure creating a legislative mechanism to allow death row inmates to appeal their sentences on grounds of intellectual disability, Pervis Payne s attorneys have filed a new petition in his case.
The petition, filed Wednesday in Shelby County Criminal Court, argues that Payne is ineligible for the death penalty due to his intellectual disability. 
Supporters of Payne are also calling on Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich to agree that Payne is a person with intellectual disability. 
Payne, who is being held on death row in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, is convicted of the 1987 deaths of Millington woman Charisse Christopher, 28, and her 2-year-old daughter, Lacie. Christopher’s 3-year-old son, Nicholas, survived multiple stab wounds in the brutal attack that took place in Christopher’s apartment. ....

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