{"id":3720,"date":"2021-05-12T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:53:07","slug":"murderer-claims-hes-too-retarded-for-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Murderer Claims He&#8217;s Too Retarded For Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee man convicted of murdering a young mother and her daughter is asking a state court to overturn his death sentence due to his claimed mental disability.\u00a0\u00a0 Travis Loller of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tennessee-inmate-asks-court-declare-175900459.html\">reports<\/a> that Pervis Payne&#8217;s execution was halted by the Governor last November, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0 Payne filed his claim one day after the Governor signed a bill into law which prohibits the execution of &#8220;intellectually disabled&#8221; murderers.\u00a0 Payne had raised the same claim unsuccessfully in his 2014 appeal in the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/paynepervisopn.pdf\">upheld<\/a> his conviction and sentence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Payne was convicted of the 1987 stabbing murders of Charisse Christopher, her 2-year-old daughter Lacie and the attempted murder of 3-year-old Nicholas.\u00a0 Charisse was stabbed 42 times with a butcher knife with many wounds going all the way through her body.\u00a0 She had multiple defense wounds.\u00a0 Her daughter was stabbed 9 times in the chest, abdomen and head.\u00a0 Nicholas, while stabbed multiple times, survived.\u00a0 The evidence of Payne&#8217;s guilt was overwhelming.\u00a0 Witnesses put him at the crime scene at the time of the murders.\u00a0 A responding officer saw him running from the victim&#8217;s apartment.\u00a0 When arrested his cloths were covered with blood of the mother&#8217;s and children&#8217;s blood type, which were different.\u00a0 His baseball cap was found at the crime scene and his fingerprints were on beer cans and several surfaces in the victim&#8217;s apartment.\u00a0\u00a0 At trial, Payne claimed that he did not kill the victims, but entered the apartment to try and help them after seeing a man running from the building.\u00a0 While witnesses testifying on his behalf said he did not use drugs, Payne was found with cocaine and a hypodermic needle in his pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Payne did raise his mental disability claim at trial and introduced an expert witness who supported that claim, but based upon the sophistication of the crime and the weight of the evidence, a jury found him guilty and his conviction and sentence\u00a0 have been upheld over 33 years of court review.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee man convicted of murdering a young mother and her daughter is asking a state court to overturn his death sentence due to his claimed mental disability.\u00a0\u00a0 Travis Loller of the Associated Press reports that Pervis Payne&#8217;s execution was halted by the Governor last November, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0 Payne filed his claim one day after the Governor signed a bill into law which prohibits the execution of &#8220;intellectually disabled&#8221; 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