Tennessee's death row inmates sue to stop lethal injection protocol: 'A torturous death'
“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...
Tennessee has paid $600,000 for lethal injection drugs, but specific details remain secret
Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy.
Death penalty debate intensifies as Tennessee set to resume executions with new drug
Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...
Kevin Burns, Tennessee's death row pastor, has hope despite his circumstances
Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.
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State Executions to Resume Under New Lethal Injection Protocol
One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...
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Tennessee death row inmates file suit to stop new lethal injection protocols
A group of nine men on Tennessee's death row filed suit in Davidson County ... among the four currently scheduled for execution. Oscar Smith, the first inmate set to be executed on May 22, was ...
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Tennessee Death Row Prisoners Challenge State’s New Lethal Injection Protocol over Risk of Torturous Executions
Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, ...
Death row inmates sue Tennessee over execution methods, alleging risk of tortuous death
A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions. Kevin Burns, Byron Black, Jon Hall, Kennath Henderson, Anthony Darrel Hines, ...