TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 11, 2022

Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk is arguing that death row inmate Byron Black is intellectually disabled under the definitions of a new state law, and therefore, his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison. Funk filed a petition with Senior Judge Walter Kurtz agreeing with Black’s defense team that he should be removed from death row, the Tennessean reports. Federal public defenders representing Black also filed a brief this week asking the judge to reset the conviction. Black, 65, was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters Latoya, 9, and Lakesha, 6, at their home in April 1988.