Nicholas Todd Sutton (July 15, 1961 – February 20, 2020) was an American serial killer who was responsible for murdering two acquaintances and his own grandmother in North Carolina and Tennessee from August to December 1979.

Despite her good intentions, he often squandered the money on weekly purchases of cocaine and maintaining his pit bulls, and even sold a pickup truck and a land plot in North Carolina which his grandmother had given to him as a gift.

[6] Following his conviction, Sutton changed his story, claiming that the actual killer was 46-year-old Charles Pomery Almon III, a Knoxville contractor who was pressing him for money.

[6] While police and prosecutors alike were skeptical of his version of events, they were convinced that Almon could indeed have been killed, as he had been reported missing for over two months by that point, with his abandoned gold Jaguar found in front of a Holiday Inn in Newport.

He claimed that sometime from August 10 to 22, he had set up a meeting with Large at his aunt's remote farm in Waterville, North Carolina, where he kept a stash of marijuana and white liquor.

[7] With these doubts arising, Sutton changed his story yet again, claiming that Almon and an unidentified accomplice had robbed a bank in the Asheville area, and that they gave him $1,500 in exchange for acting as their getaway driver.

[16] After his conviction, Sutton initially served his sentence at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary before being transferred to the maximum security Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg.

In response, Sutton and three other inmates (23-year-old Charles Arnold Freeman; 33-year-old Thomas Street and 22-year-old David Wesley Stufflestreet) decided to arm themselves with knives and take revenge on Estep.

[17] In March 1986, the jury found Sutton and Street guilty on the murder charge, sentencing the former to death and the latter to life imprisonment; Freeman and Stufflestreet were each acquitted.

[18] In the decades following his death sentence conviction, Sutton and his lawyers launched repeated appeals to various courts, arguing that his troubled personal life and good behavior after the incident were mitigating factors.

"[2] In January 2020, Sutton notified prison officials that he chose the electric chair over lethal injection as execution method, a choice allowed by Tennessee law.

[19] In the end, Sutton's death sentence was cemented, as Governor Bill Lee rejected his clemency application a week before the scheduled execution date.

[1] After having his spiritual adviser serve communion, consisting of Welch's grape juice and a wafer, Sutton ate his requested last meal of fried pork chops, mashed potatoes with gravy and peach pie with vanilla ice cream.