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Corrections Chief Says New Execution Process to Be Completed By Year’s End

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 10, 2024

Tennessee Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada told a legislative panel this week that the state expects to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year. "We should have our protocols in place by the end of this calendar year or at the first week or two of January," Strada said. "We've been working with the attorney general's office on writing those protocols to make sure that they're sound." He did not reveal any details about the new process, only that effort had taken a long time because of the many lawyers working on the issue to ensure it was "within the law," the Associated Press reports. The state stopped executions in May 2022 following concerns about the proper testing of lethal injection drugs. A report issued later that month found that the state had not followed its own lethal injections policies in the four years that executions had been reinstated.

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