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Death row inmates sue Tennessee over execution methods, alleging risk of tortuous death
The electric chair first replaced hanging as the method of exaction in Tennessee in 1913. It remained the only option here until 1998 when lethal injection was added as a choice by the state ...
Death penalty debate intensifies as Tennessee set to resume executions with new drug
Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...