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Tennessee Plans Another Execution Despite Its Brutal Recent Mistakes

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Tennessee Plans Another Execution Despite Its Brutal Recent Mistakes
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In early August, on the one-year anniversary of his father’s death, Samson Childs invited his godfather out to eat at a Wingstop on Nashville’s south side, not far from where his dad grew up. Hanging out with his godfather was a way for Childs to feel close to his father, Byron Black, who died at 69. “We talked and we cried and he gave me good memories – just old stories of my dad, him growing up, and how they stuck together,” Childs said.



Black spent more than three decades on death row befo

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