Secrecy
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,May 02, 2023
Bills to alter the state’s method of execution and to make the execution process more transparent failed in Tennessee’s legislature this year as its session concluded. In an effort to facilitate executions bogged down by the state’s problems with …
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Upcoming Executions
,Nov 09, 2020
Citing the coronavirus pandemic, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has granted a temporary reprieve to death-row prisoner Pervis Payne, halting his scheduled December 3, 2020 execution. The execution was the last schedu…
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Clemency
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Apr 02, 2021
Clemency efforts on behalf of Tennessee death-row prisoner Pervis Payne (pictured) are surging, as a petition on his behalf by The Innocence Project had collected more than 600,000 signatures by M…
Victims' Families
,Clemency
,New Voices
,Jan 22, 2020
Saying that Nicholas Sutton “has gone from a life-taker to a life-saver,” lawyers for the Tennessee death-row prisoner filed an application for cle…
Secrecy
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Jun 03, 2022
Court records from a lawsuit brought by Tennessee death-row prisoners have revealed widespread irregularities in the state’s execution practices. A series of four articles published in the Nashville newspaper, The Ten…
Lethal Injection
,Jan 04, 2023
An independent investigation into Tennessee’s execution practices has found that the state repeatedly failed to follow its own protocols in performing seven executions and preparing for an eighth between 2018 and 2022. Gov…
Executions Overview
,Lethal Injection
,Jun 23, 2022
Tennessee executions could be on hold for years, as the state conducts an independent investigation into widespread non-compliance with its execution protocol and litigates the constitutionality of revisions expected to be made to…
Executions Overview
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Jan 17, 2023
Tennessee will not resume executions until it fixes systemic problems with the administration of its execution protocol, Governor Bill Lee has announced. “It’s a very important issue that has to be done correctly,…
Secrecy
,Upcoming Executions
,May 03, 2022
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (pictured) has paused all executions scheduled for 2022 and called for an “independent review” of the state’s execution protocol to address a “technical oversight” that…
