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    Charles Edward Rice - Tennessee Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Convicted and sentence to death in the murder of thirteen-year-old Emily Branch. She was reported missing on June 18, 2000, and her body was discovered on June 25, 2000. After a police investigation, Emily's stepfather, Charles Rice, was questioned and arrested for her murder.

    Rice was sentenced to death on January 14, 2002.

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    Memphis area death row inmates lose bids to reopen case

    Efforts by two death row inmates to reopen their cases that have been on appeal for years were rejected Monday by a judge.

    David Keen, 48, of Millington, who admitted strangling and raping 8-year-old Ashley Nicole ‘Nikki’ Read in 1990, contended through attorneys that he was intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.

    Charles Rice, 46, of Memphis, who was convicted of the 2000 rape and murder of his 13-year-old stepdaughter Emily Branch, argued that his lawyers were ineffective.

    Criminal Court Judge Chris Craft ruled in lengthy opinions that those and other issues raised by the inmates are without merit.

    No execution dates are set.

    http://www.commercialappeal.com/news...ids-reopen-ca/

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

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Nos.: (W2011-01069-CCA-R3-PD)
    Decision Date: March 27, 2013
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: September 11, 2013
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    On July 3, 2014, Rice filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ten...4cv02520/67715

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