The 4th Execution of 2020
Tennessee executed death row inmate Nicholas Todd
Sutton in the electric chair Thursday night, marking the fifth time
the state has used the method since 2018, reported The Tennessean.
Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m.
CST, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
He was 18 years old when he killed his
grandmother Dorothy Sutton, his high school friend John Large and another man,
Charles Almon. Sutton didn't receive a death sentence until he fatally stabbed
fellow inmate Carl Estep six years later, in 1985.
When the curtain to the death chamber opened
Thursday, Sutton looked forward with a solemn expression and made eye contact
with media witnesses on the other side of the glass.
Asked by the prison warden if he had any last words,
Sutton spoke at length about his Christian faith. He thanked his wife, his
family and "many friends for their love and support as they tried so very
hard to save my life."
He spoke about the "power of Jesus Christ
to take impossible situations and correct them."
“I’m just grateful to be a servant of God, and I’m
looking forward to being in his presence,” Sutton said. "And I thank
you."
Nicholas Sutton's last words: 'I’m just grateful to be a servant of God'
A prison chaplain and Sutton's spiritual adviser had
served him communion — Welch's grape juice and a wafer — at 3:30
p.m., just before he ate his last meal.
Seated in the electric chair, Sutton closed his eyes
as prison officials doused sponges attached to his body with saline solution.
Salt water ran down his face before a pair of officers draped a shroud over his
head, which had been shaved hours earlier.
Then his body lifted
up as jolts of electrocution twice coursed through his body.To read more CLICK HERE
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