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In May 2019, Lee introduced her main initiative as First Lady, called Tennessee Serves. The program is designed to encourage Tennessee residents to engage in community service. The initiative also strongly focuses on youth serving. “At a young age, my parents taught me the importance of serving others, and now, it’s a big part of who I am.
In February 2020, Lee signed a bill making Tennessee's official nickname the "Volunteer State". The name originated during the War of 1812, when Tennessee sent 1,500 volunteer soldiers. [141] In 2021, Lee appointed John DeBerry as his senior advisor. DeBerry was a Democratic member of the state house whom the Tennessee Democratic Party removed ...
Oscar Franklin Smith (born March 25, 1950 [1]) is an American man convicted of capital murder in Tennessee and sentenced to death. [1] Smith was scheduled to be executed on April 21, 2022, however, his execution was temporarily reprieved by Governor Bill Lee due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection.
Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.
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Raynella Dossett Leath, from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, is a woman who was released in 2017 from a life sentence at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville for the 2003 murder of her husband David Leath. Prosecutors alleged that she shot her husband in the head, and then attempted to stage his murder as a suicide. The judge, in the third ...
It is Lee's third year in a row to grant a swath of December clemency decisions. The governor in 2020 loosened criteria to qualify for a review. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issues 22 pardons ...