atkins v. virginia
A bill sponsored by Northeast Tennessee State Rep. David Hawk is working to prevent executions on inmates atkins v. virginia have intellectual disabilities. HB and its senate companion are both being considered in respective committees. As of April 15, the house version is to be reviewed in the Calendar and Rules Committee, while the senate version, sponsored by Sen. Todd Gardenhire, is being reviewed in the Senate Calendar Committee.
The legislation would allow inmates who claim to have an intellectual disability that have already been sentenced to death to petition the court to reopen atkins v. virginia case. This bill comes as death row inmate Pervis Payne, who was sentenced to die for the stabbing death of a mother and her two-year old daughter in Memphis, had his execution delayed by Gov.
Bill Lee as he was granted a temporary reprieve. The Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Currently, there virgginia only two inmates on death row with convictions from cases stemming in the Northeast Tennessee area, atkins v. virginia Nickolus Johnson, sentenced to death for the murder of a Bristol, TN Police Officer, and Howard Willis, sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a Georgia couple in Johnson City in Local Headlines.
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