TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 11, 2019

The Tennessee Supreme Court today stayed the execution of death row inmate Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, the Tennessean reports. Abdur'Rahman was to have been executed in April 2020 but the court allowed additional time for the lower courts to consider whether his death sentence should be converted to life in prison given prosecutorial misconduct that occurred in his case. In August, Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk acknowledged that racial discrimination occurred during jury selection. Funk negotiated a deal that would have replaced the death sentence with life in prison, but Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery said that deal was improper and appealed the decision.