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Tennessee Lethal Injection Commentary

By Steve Hall

The alt-weekly Nashville Scene reports, "Tennessee's outmoded lethal-injection process has accomplished what activists couldn't: effectively stopping the death penalty."  It's written by Jeff Woods. Crafty death-row lawyers and bleeding-heart judges get the blame, but the public might just as well point the finger at state government itself for Tennessee's failure to carry out death sentences. Twice in only the past three years, judges have struck down the state's method of execution by lethal injection, ruling the risk is too great that it will cause inmates to suffer excruciating pain and violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The latest ruling ? this one just before Thanksgiving by Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ? has stopped three executions so far...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).