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Death Row Prisoners Challenge New Tennessee 
Single-Drug Lethal Injection Protocol

Loaded on June 1, 2025 published in Prison Legal News June, 2025, page 48
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Death Row, Method of Execution. Location: Tennessee.

Nine condemned Tennessee prisoners filed suit in state court on March 14, 2025, accusing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of subjecting them to a “risk of torturous death” with a lethal execution protocol utilizing pentobarbital. Kevin Burns, Byron Black, Jon Hall, Kennath Henderson, Anthony Darrell Hines, Henry Hodges, Farris ...

 

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