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Tennessee Death Row Inmate, Timothy McKinney, Gets a New Trial

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Timothy McKinney was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in 1999. McKinney, an African-American, is accused of killing Donald Williams, an off-duty Memphis police officer after an altercation with Williams earlier in the evening on Christmas night at Crumpy?s Comedy Club in Memphis. The circumstances leading to McKinney?s conviction include: no forensic evidence, inconsistent eyewitness testimony, and inadequate defense. On Christmas night, 1997, hundreds of people attended a Christmas party at Crumpy's Comedy Club. As the party was winding down, Donald Williams, an off-duty Memphis police officer moonlighting as a security guard at the club, was shot point blank in the back of the neck and was fatally wounded by an assailant whose face was obscured...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).