Tennessee set to carry out what is expected to be only the second execution of a blind prisoner in the U.S. since the nation reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
FILE - This 2017 file photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows Lee Hall, formerly known as Leroy Hall Jr. Hall, a death row inmate. Hall is scheduled to be electrocuted Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Hall walked onto death row nearly three decades ago with his sight, but attorneys for the 53-year-old prisoner say he’s since become functionally blind due to improperly treated glaucoma.
Earlier this year, Hall chose the electric chair over lethal injection as allowed under state law. His lawyer said it also would be the first electrocution of a blind inmate since the 1976 resumption of U.S. executions. But attorney Kelly Gleason has asked the federal courts to stop Hall from being put to death in the big wooden electric chair believed to have been built with the wood from Tennessee's old gallows.
Crozier's sister, Staci Wooten, and her father, Gene Crozier, have said they intend to watch Hall's execution Thursday. Hall's team filed several legal filings in federal court on Wednesday in a last effort to block the execution as the options dwindled. Meanwhile, Hall was moved earlier this week to a room adjacent to Tennessee's execution chamber as part of the state's death penalty guidelines.For his last meal, Hall selected a Philly cheesesteak, onion rings and a slice of cheesecake.
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