Tennessee is set to execute Lee Hall, 53, in the electric chair. Attorneys say he became blind in prison from improperly treated glaucoma.
Tennessee is set to carry out what is expected to be only the second execution of a blind prisoner in the United States since the nation reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
“Unless the federal courts intervene, Tennessee will become the first state in modern United States history to electrocute a blind man,” Gleason said in a statement Wednesday. “It is a sad day for justice in the state of Tennessee.”Authorities said Hall attacked Traci Crozier, 22, on April 16, 1991, by setting her car ablaze with a container of gasoline: stuffing a paper towel over the top, lighting it on fire and tossing it in her vehicle while she was inside.
“The justice system has extensively reviewed Lee Hall’s case over the course of almost 30 years, including additional review and rulings by the Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday and today,” the Republican governor said in a statement Wednesday. “I will not intervene in this case.” To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has neither set an upper age limit for executions nor created an exception for a physical infirmity.
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