NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has set two new executiondates, just days after putting to death its seventh inmate in the past year-and-a-half.
On Monday, the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered an Oct. 8execution date for inmate Byron Black and a Dec. 3 execution date for PervisPayne.
Black was convicted of the 1988 murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters in Nashville.
Payne was sentenced to death for the 1987 fatal stabbing ofa Memphis woman and her daughter.
With two more executions already scheduled in 2020,Tennessee could see an execution rate not matched since 1948.
Attorneys for the inmates have argued they are both intellectually disabled and mentally ill.
