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Tennessee seeks execution dates for 9 death row inmates

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Tennessee seeks execution dates for 9 death row inmatesTennessee’s attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to set execution dates for nine death row prisoners, bucking a national movement away from capital punishment. Attorney General Herbert Slatery quietly filed the request on Friday with no explanation, and the state Supreme Court later posted it on its website on Tuesday. “The Tennessee Constitution guarantees victims of crime the right to a ‘prompt and final conclusion of the case after the conviction of sentence,'” Slatery said in a statement Tuesday in response to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

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