Nicholas Sutton in a photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction. Image: AP/PA Images Nicholas Sutton in a photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction. Image: AP/PA Images A QUADRUPLE MURDERER was put to death in Tennessee on yesterday despite lawyers asking the US Supreme Court for a stay of execution.At that time, Sutton was serving a life sentence for killing his grandmother, who had raised him, in 1979 when he was 18 years of age.
The request stressed that Sutton had intervened several times to protect prison guards and fellow inmates from violence. In particular he was said to have saved the life of a guard during a prison riot in 1985. Protesters gather near Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to protest the execution of Nicholas Sutton. Source: Andrew Nelles/AP/Press Association Images
Sutton’s defenders said he had been a model prisoner for more than 30 years and noted that even some of the families of his victims opposed his execution. They included the daughter of the inmate he killed.Sutton’s lawyers then filed a last-ditch appeal with the US Supreme Court. Tennessee suspended executions in 2009 because of a controversy over lethal injections but reinstated them in 2018. Sutton was the seventh person executed since then and the fifth to choose the electric chair as method of execution.
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