TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 30, 2023

The Death Penalty Information Center recently released a new report titled, “Doomed to Repeat: The Legacy of Race in Tennessee’s Contemporary Death Penalty.” The report highlights the connection between the state’s current use of capital punishment and its history of racial oppression, according to Stacy Rector with Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Tennessee stopped executions last year because of problems with the lethal injection protocol.