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    Gregory Thompson - Tennessee


    Brenda Blanton Lane


    Gregory Thompson


    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death in the New Year's Day 1985 stabbing murder of Brenda Blanton Lane. Thompson and his girlfriend had abducted Lane in a local shopping center parking lot to get her car so they could drive to Marietta, Georgia. Lane was then killed in Coffee County.

    Thompson was sentenced to death on August 22, 1985.

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    On September 11, 2009, Thompson was granted a Certificate of Appealability by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to assess his mental competency for execution.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions...9a0332p-06.pdf

    On October 14, 2010, the US Supreme Court refused the State of Tennessee's appeal to overturn the Sixth Circuit's decision.

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    On October 30, 2012, Thompson filed an appeal before the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca6/12-6320/

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    Tennessee death row inmate dies in prison

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee death row inmate has died at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville of what officials say was natural causes.

    Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor says 52-year-old Gregory Thompson was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon.

    Thompson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death on Aug. 22, 1985.

    Thompson and a woman were stranded in Shelbyville without money or transportation to get back to Georgia.

    Thompson kidnapped Brenda Lane at knifepoint on Jan. 1, 1985 at a Wal-Mart in Shelbyville and forced her to drive him and another person to a remote location outside Manchester.

    Prosecutors say once there, he stabbed Lane several times.

    http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/...dies-in-prison

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