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Convicted killer Gary Wayne Sutton was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, but will now avoid death — at least for a little longer.
granted another death sentence – that a friend from prison just to kill him and then his sister in 1992 – to live a few more weeks before his date with death.
Bill Lee stopped all remaining executions scheduled before the end of the year – that was just one. Convicted killer Gary Wayne Sutton was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, but will now avoid death, at least for a little longer. Gary Wayne Sutton’s stay of execution comes in light of Christa Pike’s bungled execution, which saw two rounds of lethal injections fail to end her life, leaving her unconscious and hospitalized but still alive.
Sutton has been on death row since he was convicted of the February 1992 murders of siblings Tommy Griffin and Connie Branam in two separate trials. Sutton, his uncle James Dellinger and Griffin had gone out for a debauched night of drinking on February 21, which turned nasty when a fight broke out, according to court records obtained by Sutton, who has been on death row since he was convicted of the 1992 murders of brother Tommy Griffin and his sister Connie Branam.
Griffin was left shirtless and crouching on the side of the road and was picked up by officers who took him into custody for public intoxication, records show. Sutton and Dellinger extradited him and about half an hour later, witnesses reported hearing three shots, after which Griffin was later found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, records show.
Gary Wayne Sutton, who was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, put his death on hold after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the death penalty statewide until the end of the year. Branam then went looking for her brother with Sutton and Dellinger the next day at the bar they had patronized the night before, prosecutors said.
Dellinger, who was a co-defendant with Sutton, was sentenced to death, but died of natural causes on death row before he could be executed. Sutton – who has maintained his innocence – does not have a new execution date in the new year, and it is unclear when the state of Tennessee will resume executions.
Gary Wayne Sutton’s stay of execution comes in light of Christa Pike’s bungled execution, which saw two rounds of lethal injections fail to end her life, leaving her unconscious and hospitalized but still alive. Sutton has been on death row since he was convicted of the 1992 murders of brother Tommy Griffin and his sister Connie Branam.
Gary Wayne Sutton, who was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, put his death on hold after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the death penalty statewide until the end of the year.
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