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| Supreme Court rules against death row inmate |
| By WVLT |
| Published: 07/04/2005 |
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The Supreme Court ruled last week that a lower court improperly gave a Tennessee death row inmate a second chance, infringing on the state's right to execute the man. However, four of the justices filed a dissenting opinion, stating the judicial system failed the inmate. Justices found that the 6th U-S Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati abused its discretion when it reopened Gregory Thompson's case. Thompson had already lost an appeal there and at the Supreme Court. Thompson was convicted of using a rusty butcher knife in 1985 to kill Brenda Blanton Lane, a 28-year-old former newspaper reporter, whom he abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Shelbyville, drove to a remove area and killed. Thompson was to be executed last year, but that was called off after the appeals court vacated an earlier ruling against him. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. |
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