A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general to argue certain capital cases, a power that lawmakers shifted away from locally elected prosecutors under a new law after some expressed reluctance to pursue the death penalty.
Inmate Larry McKay is asking a judge to disqualify Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti from representing the state in McKay's effort to get a new trial.
This story will air at 10 p.m. May 4 on News Channel 3. The video will be added here after it airs. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man convicted of double murder in Shelby County and sentenced to death will no longer face capital punishment. Michael Sample’s death sentence has been vacated. Sample and Larry McKay […]