Tennessee Supreme Court

Tennessee has scheduled three executions this year, after nearly a decade without them, according to USA Today. Dozens of Death Row prisoners lost challenges to the use of the death penalty and lethal injection. The Tennessee Supreme Court has consistently ruled in favor of the process. “The intended result of an execution is to render the inmate dead,” wrote Chief Justice Jeffrey Bivins in his official opinion, upholding the state’s practice of executing the condemned by lethal injection. The execution dates of James Hawkins, Billy Ray … [Read more...] about Tennessee schedules three executions