Tennessee can electrocute inmates if the drugs needed to perform lethal injection are unavailable, state lawyers say in an opinion released Thursday.
A bill pending in the state legislature that allows the state to use the electric chair for all executions is constitutional, Attorney General Robert Cooper’s office says. Tennessee currently lets inmates sentenced to death choose electrocution or lethal injection, but Senate Bill 2580 would mandate the electric chair if lethal injection is found unconstitutional or if the drugs cannot be obtained
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A bill pending in the state legislature that allows the state to use the electric chair for all executions is constitutional, Attorney General Robert Cooper’s office says. Tennessee currently lets inmates sentenced to death choose electrocution or lethal injection, but Senate Bill 2580 would mandate the electric chair if lethal injection is found unconstitutional or if the drugs cannot be obtained
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