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Tennessee executes longest serving death row inmate using electric chair after court battle
Tennessee executes another inmate by electric chair after supreme court battle
Tennessee electrocutes second inmate in 2 months
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate became the second person to die in the state's electric chair in just over a month Thursday, nearly two decades after Tennessee adopted lethal injection as its preferred method of execution.
Tennessee executes man on death row for 36 years
Tennessee on Thursday electrocuted a convicted murder who had been on death row for 36 years, in a case that renewed debate on use of the death penalty so long after a crime. David Earl Miller, 61, was put to death at 7:25 pm (0125 GMT) at a high security prison in Nashville, authorities said, over the beating and stabbing death of a young woman with a mental disability. Miller was physically and sexually abused as a child and living as a drifter in the early 1980s when a Tennessee pastor gave him shelter in exchange for sex.
Tennessee set to execute murderer by electric chair on Thursday
David Miller was convicted in Knox County of first-degree murder for the 1981 killing of Lee Standifer, a 23-year-old woman. Miller has been on death row since March 1982. Before Zagorski, the last time Tennessee used its electric chair was 2007.
The Latest: Tennessee governor won't intervene in execution
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on an execution in Tennessee (all times local):
Immigrant caravan still far from border, but fear reaches Tennessee, stoked by Senate race
Lindsey Graham stumps for Blackburn Senate bid in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina rallied support Sunday in Tennessee for Rep. Marsha Blackburn's Senate bid, saying the fellow Republican "represents good old common sense."
Tennessee Woman Stabs Friend at Haunted House With Knife She Thought Was a Prop: Cops
Supreme Court rejects Tennessee death row inmate efforts
The Supreme Court rejected two last-ditch efforts to save the life of Edmund Zagorski, apparently clearing the way for his execution.
