NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the home of Tennessee’s death row, isn’t too far from downtown Nashville.
It’s almost 200 miles away from the yellow courthouse in Maryville that used to house Blount County’s trial chambers.
A jury seated inside the Blount County courthouse convicted Gary Wayne Sutton of murder in the brutal 1992 killing of Tommy Griffin, just a few years after a Sevier County jury convicted Sutton of killing Griffin’s sister, Connie Branham…