Tag Archives: Tennessee
Luke Perry buried Monday near Tennessee home, death certificate says
Luke Perry buried Monday near Tennessee home, death certificate says
Tennessee school apologizes after assignment told students to pretend families own slaves
The assignment given to middle school Williamson County students said: 'Your family owns slaves. Create a list of expectations.'
Government shutdown: Syrian refugee’s falafel shop giving free meals to furloughed workers in Tennessee
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):
