According to CNN
An inmate who was convicted of killing four people — but who saved the lives of three corrections officers while in prison, according to his lawyer — is scheduled to be executed Thursday night.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday denied Nicholas Sutton’s clemency bid.
“After careful consideration of Nicholas Sutton’s request for clemency and a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening” Lee said in a statement. Sutton, 58, was sentenced to die for fatally stabbing a fellow inmate in 1985, when he was serving life sentences for killing three other people, including his grandmother. The clemency application says he’s a changed man who “has undergone personal transformation, a man who is worth far more to our society and prison system alive than dead.” Sutton is credited with saving the lives of multiple correction officers, according to the clemency application that defense lawyer Kevin Sharp sent to the governor in January.One of those officers, Tony Eden, says Sutton saved his life during a prison riot in 1985. “A group of five inmates, armed with knives and other weapons, surrounded me and attempted to take me hostage. Nick and another inmate confronted them, physically removed me from the situation and escorted me to the safety of the trap gate in an other building,” Eden, a retired correction official said in the clemency application. “I owe my life to Nick Sutton.”