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Appeals court vacates agreement to resentence Black inmate

by Kimberlee Kruesi
| December 1, 2020 10:09 AM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee trial court judge improperly reduced a Black inmate's death sentence to life in prison last year, a state appeals court has ruled.

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