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    Tyrone L. Chalmers - Tennessee Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    On August 20, 1994, the body of the African-American victim, 28-year-old Randy Allen, was discovered lying face down on the sidewalk next to Netherwood Street in Memphis. His pants and underwear had been pulled down around his ankles, and he had been shot five times. Two of the wounds, one to the head and another to the back, were fatal.

    Chalmers was sentenced to death on July 18, 1997.

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    On January 27, 2009, Chalmers filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ten...cv02051/52369/

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Chalmers' petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Nos.: (W2013-02317-CCA-R3-PD)
    Decision Date: June 30, 2014
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: November 19, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-9489.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Chalmers' petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Numbers: (W2016-02413-CCA-R28-PD)
    Decision Date: February 28, 2017
    Discretionary Court Decision Date: June 9, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-6689.html

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    On November 25, 2019, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Chalmers' petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Numbers: (W2018-01650-CCA-R28-PD)
    Decision Date: January 17, 2019
    Discretionary Court Decision Date: May 17, 2019

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/19-5988.html

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    Judge: Death row inmate can pursue disability claims

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    A Tennessee death row inmate convicted of a 1994 slaying can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law, a federal judge has ruled.

    U.S. District Judge Mark S. Norris issued an order Tuesday granting a stay in federal court proceedings for Tyrone Chalmers, who was convicted in 1997 of robbing a man of $3 and killing him in Shelby County.

    Norris' order allows Chalmers, 49, to once again pursue arguments in state court that Tennessee lacks authority to execute him. Previous attempts have failed, and the Tennessee Supreme Court has rejected efforts to reopen post-conviction proceedings for him.

    A Vanderbilt University professor said in 2012 that Chalmers had functional intelligence “at or below 70,” court documents showed.

    The order comes about seven months after a judge threw out the death penalty for Pervis Payne, ruling that he was intellectually disabled when he was convicted for the 1987 slayings of a mother and her 2-year-old daughter in Shelby County. Payne will be eligible for parole in about five years after the judge re-sentenced him to serve two concurrent life sentences.

    Executions of the intellectually disabled were ruled unconstitutional in 2002, when the U.S. Supreme Court found they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

    But until Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill in 2021 making Tennessee’s law retroactive in prohibiting the execution of the intellectually disabled, Tennessee had no mechanism for an inmate to reopen a case to press a mental disability claim.

    “Based on the Tennessee amendment to the intellectual disability statute, Chalmers may now exhaust his intellectual disability claim,” Norris wrote in his order.

    Earlier this month, Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black appealed a trial court’s dismissal of his request to be declared intellectually disabled.

    In May, Lee paused all executions through the remainder of the year after he called off a separate execution in April because of an “oversight” in preparations for the lethal injection. Lee has appointed former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to review circumstances that led to the failure, which the state has said included a lack of required testing for endotoxins in the drugs.

    Chalmers was convicted of first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery in 1997 in the killing of Randy Allen, 28. Allen was found lying face down on a Memphis sidewalk in August 1994. His pants and underwear had been pulled down around his ankles, and he had been shot five times, court documents showed.

    Then 21, Chalmers acknowledged shooting Allen, who was robbed of $3.

    During trial, Chalmers testified he had been drinking alcohol and had smoked crack cocaine for the first time just hours before the killing. He told Allen's family that he was sorry and expressed his desire to take the victim’s place if he could, court documents showed.

    https://thepublicsradio.org/article/...ability-claims
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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