MLK50 relied on a list originally compiled by Ed Miller Jr., a Tennessee attorney who reviewed every first-degree murder conviction in Tennessee between 1977 and 2017.
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Prosecutors seemed to be targeting people who “can’t fight for their lives because they don’t have money for lawyers,” Shawn’a Hatcher said. “It’s dead wrong.”
The average Tennessee child convicted of felony murder was 16 at the time of the offense, MLK50 found. Some were as young as 12 when charged.
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