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    Vincent Cortez Sims - Tennessee Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Vincent Cortez Sims was convicted of especially aggravated burglary and first-degree premeditated murder in the April 5, 1996 shooting death of Forrest Smith. Sims was sentenced to twenty years on the especially aggravated burglary conviction and was sentenced to death for the first-degree murder conviction on May 1, 1998.

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    On October 26, 2011, Sims filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ten...cv02946/60310/

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Sims' petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Nos.: (W2015-01713-CCA-R28-PD)
    Decision Date: January 28, 2016
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: May 6, 2016

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....les/16-445.htm

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    3 Tennessee death row inmates lose Supreme Court appeals

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from three Tennessee death-row inmates who say they should not be executed because they are intellectually disabled.

    The justices on Monday left in place state court rulings upholding the death sentences of inmates Pervis Payne, Michael Sample and Vincent Sims.

    The three men said Tennessee has refused to apply a 2014 Supreme Court ruling that affects inmates with borderline cases of intellectual disability.

    The Supreme Court ruling prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on intelligence test scores to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed.

    The issue in the Tennessee cases was whether that decision should apply to older cases.

    The Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled prisoners in 2002.

    http://wkrn.com/2017/03/20/3-tenness...court-appeals/

    Seems the article incorrectly listed Sample. They are correct about the other two though.
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    Motion for Partial Summary Judgement denied by the federal district court.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...946/60310/134/
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