NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP/CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Tennessee Supreme Court today issued six execution dates for 2019 and 2020. All of the defendants had previous execution dates set, which were stayed for pending litigation.
Tennessee has executed two inmates this year. The latest was Edmund Zagorski, who died in the electric chair earlier this month. Only eight people have been executed in Tennessee since 1960, according to the Associated Press.*
The executions come after the courts turned back several legal challenges to the state’s two methods of execution — lethal injection using midazolam and two other drugs, and electrocution.
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The dates are as follows:
The Court set an execution date of May 16, 2019, for Donnie Edward Johnson. Johnson was convicted in 1985 of killing his wife Connie Johnson in Shelby County.
The Court set an execution date of August 15, 2019, for Stephen Michael West. West was convicted of the murder of Wanda Romines, 51, and the murder and rape of Sheila Romines, 15, in Union County in 1986.
The Court set an execution date of October 10, 2019, for Charles Walton Wright. Wright was convicted of the murders of Gerald Mitchell and Douglas Alexander in Davidson County in 1984.
The Court set an execution date of December 5, 2019, for Lee Hall, a/k/a Leroy Hall, Jr. Hall was convicted of the murder of Traci Crozier in Hamilton County in 1991.
The Court set an execution date of February 20, 2020, for Nicholas Todd Sutton. Sutton was convicted of the murder of Carl Estep in 1985 in Morgan County. He was earlier convicted of the murder of his grandmother.
The Court set an execution date of April 9, 2020, for Abu-Ali Abdur’ Rahman (formerly known as James Lee Jones). Abdur’ Rahman was convicted of the murder of Patrick Daniels in 1986 in Davidson County.
*The Associated Press contributed to this report.