TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 21, 2020

The state of Tennessee executed Nicholas Todd Sutton last night, the Tennessean reports. Sutton chose to die by electric chair, marking the fifth time the state has used this method since 2018. He is the seventh inmate to be executed since the state resumed capital punishment in August 2018 and the 139th person to be put to death in Tennessee since 1916. Sutton was jailed for the murder of his grandmother and two other men when he was 18, but did not receive a death sentence until he fatally stabbed another inmate six years later in 1985.