Inmates on death row in Tennessee were granted reprieve on Friday when Gov. Bill Lee announced that the state’s highest court will not reschedule executions, for now.
Tennessee’s lethal injection chemicals haven’t been tested properly for years, according to third party review
Gov. Bill Lee is changing the way Tennessee carries out its executions, following an independent review of the state’s lethal injections.
Executions on pause in Tennessee after governor calls for independent review of lethal injections
Executions are on hold in Tennessee while a former U.S. Attorney is brought in to review the protocol that stopped a lethal injection late last month.
Defense attorneys ask Tennessee governor to stop all executions until protocols can be independently reviewed
Middle Tennessee’s federal public defender is asking Gov. Bill Lee to halt all executions until an independent group can review the state’s protocols. The defense attorneys sent a letter to the governor Thursday morning, one week after he granted a last-minute reprieve for Oscar Smith.
A man on Tennessee’s death row tells the courts he would rather face a firing squad than lethal injection
Oscar Smith’s attorneys think lethal injection is cruel and unusual. But he doesn’t want to choose the electric chair, either. Instead, they’re asking for an alternative: firing squad.
Tennessee Performs First Execution In 9 Years After U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Intervene
This story has been updated. Tennessee has executed its first death row inmate in nearly a decade, the state Department of Correction announced this evening, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday not to intervene in the case of 59-year-old Billy Ray Irick.
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