State Supreme Court Sets Execution Date for Thompson
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February 26, 2004
NASHVILLE (AP) -- The Tennessee Supreme Court has set an August 19th execution date for a Tennessee inmate convicted of stabbing a Shelbyville woman to death in 1985.
The order was filed in the case of 42-year-old Gregory Thompson. He was convicted in 1985 of abducting Brenda Blanton Lane from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Shelbyville, driving her to a rural area in Coffee County and stabbing her four times with a rusty butcher knife.
Lane, a former Shelbyville newspaper reporter, was working in public relations for the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville at the time of her death.
State-paid psychiatrists say Thompson has bipolar disorder, which causes severe mood swings and delusions. He is given anti-psychotic drugs.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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