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June 9 Hearing Set For Tennessee Inmate Spared Execution

justiceforabu.org

Oral arguments are set for June 9 in the case of a Tennessee inmate who was spared execution after a judge agreed to resentence him due to his claim that racism tainted the jury selection at his trial. 

State officials will argue in front of the Court of Criminal Appeals that the death sentence should be reinstated for Abu-Ali Abdur-Rahman.

Last August, a Nashville judge approved an agreement between Abu-Ali Abdur-Rahman and Nashville’s district attorney to resentence Abdur’Rahman to life in prison. Abdur’Rahman had been scheduled to be executed in April.

Abdur’Rahman was sentenced to die for the 1986 murder of Patrick Daniels.

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