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December 2nd Execution Date Set for Tennessee Inmate Cecil Johnson

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set a December 2nd execution date for Cecil Johnson, an inmate who has served on Tennessee's death row for 28 years. Johnson was convicted of the 1980 armed robbery and murders of three Nashvillians, including a 12 year-old boy. TCASK is currently creating a summary of this case for our website in order to give readers more information as to how the case unfolded. Ultimately, Johnson was convicted and sentenced to death with no physical evidence, no murder weapon, no proceeds recovered from the robbery, and without the disclosure of key files by the prosecution putting testimony used against him in doubt. The State's case hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses as well as a "last hour" change of story by Johnson's own alibi witness for a promise of immunity by the prosecution...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).