Change.org - “Execution of an innocent man”

Pervis Payne - a Black man with an intellectual disability - has been on death row for 32 years. He is scheduled to be executed this year. Accused of murder, he has always maintained his innocence. The Innocence Project has gotten involved in his case to help prove it. Ella lives in Tennessee and started this petition. She says the DNA has never even been tested and there is no evidence he committed this crime. Join her campaign now to help stop the execution of Pervis. Get Pervis Payne Taken off Death Row 4,749 have signed Ella Brinen’s petition. Let’s get to 5,000!

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Pervis Payne is a man who has been on death row for 32 years-over half of his life. He has maintained his innocence and the same story this entire time. He is set to be executed in the state of Tennessee on December the fourth 2020. When he was given the death sentence in 1988 the DNA evidence was not tested in this case. Multiple times Payne has asked for the finger prints to be tested too and he was denied. He also has an intellectual disability and in the state of tennessee the supreme court has ruled twice that they have, “No business executing people with intellectual disabilities.” It is also unconstitutional due to the 8th amendment. The details of the crime are as follows. Payne heard his neighbor cry out in her apartment and went to go help. He found her and her daughter stabbed almost to death. He removed the butcher knife from her neck and attempted to revive her. When the police came he fled for fear that they would kill him on cite because they would assume he was guilty because of his race. He saw another man flee the scene as well. None of the DNA on the crime scene was tested and there is virtually no evidence proving his guilt. His execution is not only unconstitutional, but it will also be an execution of an innocent man.

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