Nashville, Tenn., Dec 6, 2018 / 13:43 pm
Hours before David Miller is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee's electric chair, the state's governor has rejected Miller's request that his sentence be commuted to life in prison.
Gov. Bill Haslam released a one-sentence statement Dec. 6, saying that "after careful consideration of David Earl Miller's clemency request, I am declining to intervene in this case."
Miller, 61, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Lee Standifer, whom he bludgeoned to death and stabbed. He was sentenced to death, and chose to be executed by the electric chair rather than by the state's controversial lethal injection protocol.
Attorneys for Miller filed a clemency petition with the governor last week. The petition said that Miller "accepts responsibility for the death of his friend."