Tennessee Governor Bredesen Commutes Death Sentence
By newsdesk - Posted on September 17th, 2007
09/14/2007 -- Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen today commuted the death sentence of Michael Joe Boyd (also known as Mika’eel Abdullah Abdus-Samad) to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole citing grossly inadequate legal representation received by Boyd during his post conviction hearing and procedural limitations.
On March 10, 1988 Michael Joe Boyd was convicted of murder in the first degree in the perpetration of a robbery and was sentenced to death for this conviction.
Bredesen received a clemency petition from Boyd on January 5, 2007. Boyd faced a scheduled execution date of October 24, 2007.
Source: Tennessee Governor
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