Sutton.". A number of legal challenges remain pending. Sutton didn't receive a death sentence until he fatally stabbed fellow inmate Carl Estep six years later, in 1985. They convicted Sutton of first-degree murder for his grandmother's killing, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
Sutton was born July 15, 1961, to a mother who abandoned him in infancy and a father who was mentally ill, violent and verbally abusive.
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Large's sister, Amy Large Cook, expressed relief that “at least that chapter will be over” in a statement read after the execution by a TDOC official. Sutton was originally scheduled to be executed by the state in 2015, the report said. “We’ve written him off, and he’s just totally somebody who shouldn’t even be part of society," Davis said. Searchers found that corpse only after spending thousands of dollars searching in other spots as Sutton shifted his story.
Sutton knocked her unconscious with a piece of firewood, wrapped her in a blanket and trash bags, chained her to a cinder block and threw her alive into the Nolichucky River in Hamblen County. He insisted she would make the drive from Morristown to Knoxville after dark before claiming she had left the house on a date and never returned. He'd killed Large, 19, on a trip to Mount Sterling, North Carolina, in 1979, and buried his body in a shallow grave on property that belonged to Sutton's aunt. Investigators employed forensic experts and contemplated using hypnosis, polygraph tests and so-called truth serums.
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They added "pervasive childhood trauma" had warped his brain. The retired schoolteacher might have made the mistake of telling her grandson "no" when he asked for money.
She drowned in the icy waters, an autopsy found. He had been serving time for murdering his grandmother and two others when he was 18. He became a key player in investigators' efforts to retrace the carnage, leading detectives from two states on searches for the corpses of people who never really existed.
Less than five years into his prison term, Sutton helped stab Carl Isaac Estep, a convicted child rapist from Knoxville, more than three dozen times Jan. 5, 1985, at Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility. Detectives came to call the method the "Sutton signature. "He said that was where he had rammed the tobacco stick back through his mouth up into his skull. He beat to death his high school friend, shot dead a man he described as a drug kingpin and threw his own grandmother into a river to drown — but he didn't get a death sentence until he fatally stabbed a convicted child rapist in prison.
It was to Long that Sutton uttered most of his confessions — stories that turned out to be a mixture of reality, half-truths and elaborate fabrications. In that moment, he acted like he could have been eating a sandwich.
Sutton.". Sutton did not dispute his role in four killings, but his lawyers said a history of altruism behind bars and other mitigating factors showed he deserved mercy.
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