Tennessee pauses executions, will review lethal injections
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing executions for the rest of the year after the state failed to ensure that its lethal injection drugs were properly tested.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing executions for the rest of the year after the state failed to ensure that its lethal injection drugs were properly tested.
After an undisclosed "oversight" forced Tennessee to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die last week, Smith's attorneys on Thursday asked for a moratorium on executions and a review of the state's execution protocols.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- After an undisclosed "oversight" forced Tennessee to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die last
Oscar Smith was set to be killed by the state on April 21. Says anti-death-penalty advocate Dr. Kevin Riggs, ‘God works in mysterious ways.’
Smith was convicted of the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons.