Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Death Row inmate Stephen Hugueley has died three days after the state submitted a motion to set the execution date.
Lawyer Amy Harwell said he received a call for a moment before 6 am from the Tennessee correction department, hungry told him about Hugueley’s death.
“He killed myself for years,” said Harwell, “but TDOC told me that they didn’t think it suicide.” Hugueley was sentenced to death in 2003 because the prison adviser stabbed Fatal Delbert Steed in the Hardeman District Correctional Complex in the previous year.
Hugueley, 53, has been given a lifetime in August 1986 after he was convicted of shooting his mother, Rachel Waller of Dyer County, with a rifle and threw away to the Deer Forked River.
In 1991, while Hugueley became a prisoner in West Tennessee’s high security prison near Henning, he killed a prisoner.
Six years later, Hugueley stabbed another inmates in the maximum security prison of the country in Brushy Mountain.
Hugueley then moved to the maximum Riverbend security institution in Nashville.
The Tennessee correction department did not immediately have a statement about his death.
Harwell issued a statement about Hugueley’s death, said he “entered the Tennessee correction department as a very damaged individual who was from his 12th birthday to today spent less than two years outside of institutional arrangements.” He spent the last 18 years in insulation imprisonment “where he had very limited interactions with other humans and systematically denied access to basic treatment and health care,” Harwell said.
“The years of this kind of abuse take extraordinary physical and mental victims on Stephen.
That Stephen has survived this treatment so long is the proof of His Spirit’s strength.”