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    For convicted triple murderer, long road to execution

    When convicted triple-murderer Sedrick Clayton was handed three death sentences by a Shelby County jury June 15, he became the first person in two years to be sent to death row in Tennessee — a state that has not executed an inmate since 2009.

    At 31, Clayton will replace John Freeland, who turns 32 in November, as the youngest person on Tennessee’s death row.

    Clayton will be housed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, joining 74 other death row inmates who will likely remain there for years, often decades, until their executions are carried out.

    Clayton was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for the 2012 slayings of his girlfriend Pashea Fisher, and her parents Arithio and Patricia Fisher. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Pashea’s brother A’Reco Fisher, employment and use of a firearm during a dangerous offense and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

    Prior to receiving an execution date, Clayton will be entitled to a 12-step appeals process, a petition for post-conviction relief and a federal appeals process, said defense attorney Gerald Skahan.

    “It’s a many years process,” he said. Skahan said his client will begin the appeals process within the thirty-day window following his sentencing for the four noncapital convictions on July 15.

    “It’ll be a lengthy process,” said Karen Cook, who prosecuted the case with Deputy Dist. Atty. Jennifer Nichols.

    “We tell families and interested parties that that’s what happens.”

    Donald Strouth, convicted of murdering a used clothing store owner during a Sullivan County robbery in 1978, has been on death row for 36 years — longer than any other inmate awaiting execution in Tennessee.

    Cook said that Tennessee’s capital punishment appeals process is especially thorough. “They’re given a lot more scrutiny it’s the ultimate penalty,” she said. “Hopefully another generation of prosecutors won’t be handling Sedrick Clayton.”

    Though Clayton is not unique in receiving more than one death sentence, he joins just four others in having been given three. Only two inmates — Henry Jones and Jessie Dotson — have more.

    A convicted serial killer, Jones was sentenced to death in both Shelby County and in Florida. He was given four death sentences, according to the Tennessee Department of Corrections.

    Dotson was sentenced to death six times, one for each of his victims in the 2008 Lester Street massacre, which also left three young children seriously injured.

    Paul Dennis Reid, known occasionally as the Fast Food Killer, received seven for a string of killings in the Nashville area. However, he died in 2013 before he could be executed.

    Following a 40-year hiatus, the state did not resume executions until 2000, when Robert Glen Coe was put to death for the 1979 rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.

    Coe is one of six people executed in the state since 2000. Tennessee has executed at total of 131 people since 1916.

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    Killer on Death Row Gets Additional 21-Year Sentence

    A Memphis man currently on death row for murdering his girlfriend and her parents has received an additional 21-year prison sentence for attempted murder and several other offenses.

    Sedrick Clayton, 31, was convicted in June on three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Pashea Fisher, 23, and her parents Arithio Fisher, 56, and Patricia Fisher, 46. The murders happened on January 19th, 2012, following an argument between Clayton and Pashea.

    On Friday, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to sentencing Clayton to an additional 21 years for offenses stemming from the same incident. According to the Shelby County District Attorney General’s office, Clayton received 15 years for attempted murder, six years for employment of a firearm, three years for possession of a firearm, and 11 months and 29 days for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

    Clayton’s attempted murder and employment of a firearm sentences will run consecutively, while the others will be concurrent.

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    Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences For Murders Of Memphis Family

    The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and sentences of death for Sedrick Clayton for the murders of Arithio, Patricia, and Pashea Fisher and the conviction for attempted murder of A’Reco Fisher in Memphis.

    During the early morning hours of Jan. 19, 2012, a domestic dispute erupted between the defendant and Pashea Fisher, the defendant’s girlfriend, at the Fishers’ home. The situation escalated, and the defendant shot and killed all three victims and shot toward the area in which A’Reco Fisher had been sleeping. The defendant then fled the residence in Pashea Fisher’s vehicle with his and Ms. Fisher’s then four-year-old daughter. After having several telephone conversations with a law enforcement officer, the defendant eventually turned himself in. He subsequently confessed to the murders.

    A Shelby County jury convicted the defendant of three counts of first degree premeditated murder, attempted first degree murder, possession of a firearm with the intent to go armed during the commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony, employing a firearm during the commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. In 2016, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentences of death after merging the latter two convictions.

    Upon automatic appeal to the Supreme Court as required by statute, the defendant raised several issues. First, the defendant argued that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s finding of premeditation. The Court disagreed, based upon the evidence presented at trial that the defendant fired upon four unarmed victims without provocation, failed to render aid, and reloaded his weapon to fire a second and fatal shot at Pashea Fisher. Second, the defendant argued that the statements he made to police the day after the shooting should have been suppressed pursuant to the Fourth Amendment. This issue was neither raised nor ruled upon at trial or in the defendant’s motion for a new trial and was, therefore, waived. The Court, however, reviewed the issue under the plain error doctrine and found that the defendant’s arrest was supported by probable cause and that he was brought before a magistrate in a timely manner.

    The Court also conducted an independent review of the imposition of the death sentences, as required by statute, and concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that the evidence fully supported the defendant’s convictions and sentences of death, that the sentences were not arbitrary, and that the aggravating circumstances supporting the sentences outweighed any mitigating circumstances. In addition, the majority of the Court found the sentences were not disproportionate to sentences imposed in similar cases wherein a sentence of death was imposed.

    In her concurring opinion, Justice Sharon G. Lee agreed with the Court’s outcome but stated she believed that when reviewing whether a death sentence is disproportionate to similar cases, the Court should not limit its review solely to cases in which the death penalty was imposed but should review all first degree murder cases in which life imprisonment or a sentence of death was imposed. Using that analysis, she also concluded that the defendant’s sentence of death was not excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases.

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Clayton's petition writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis were DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division
    Case Numbers: (W2015-00158-SC-DDT-DD)
    Decision Date: November 20, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/...18zor_j4el.pdf

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