On August 5, 2025, longtime death row inmate Byron Black was executed by lethal injection. Convicted of three charges of first-degree murder for the deaths of his then-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two young daughters, Black spent 36 years on death row at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. He was given the option … Read more
A Livingston man was arrested after the body of his girlfriend was found burned in a refrigerator off a rural road in Overton County. After a joint investigation with Overton County police and TBI, Edward Randolph has been charged with first-degree murder and abuse of the corpse of Hope Parrott. He is currently being held … Read more
Losing your civil rights after a felony conviction can feel like your life can never get truly back on track. In many cases, a conviction can take away your right to vote, hold certain jobs, or even own a firearm. But for many people, the law provides a way to restore these rights and move … Read more
A Williamson County woman has been accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband, a former Nashville news anchor. Angelia Solomon was arrested this past April after allegedly meeting with an undercover TBI agent in the parking lot of the Cool Springs Galleria to plan the murder of Aaron Solomon. Angelia has also been … Read more
This summer, the Tennessee legislature signed a bill that introduced a new host of misdemeanors into law. SB 30/HB 55 was amended once before becoming enforceable law, with a second amendment failing on the House floor, and went into effect on July 1, 2025. One of those misdemeanors has garnered particularly heightened scrutiny – a … Read more
The Tennessee legislature has been busy this summer, with multiple new laws that went into effect on July 1, 2025. Many of those were either new offenses or expansions of already existing ones, including several misdemeanor charges. Under HB 55/SB 30, you could now face a misdemeanor charge for putting up a poster on the … Read more