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The Tennessee Supreme Court has effectively suspended all executions in the state, The Washington Post reports. The court recently voided the scheduled execution dates of four inmates in response to concerns about the state’s lethal injection protocol. In a court order filed last week, the state said all upcoming executions would be delayed until a trial court could comment on judicial challenges raised by the inmates.
Currently, each of the four death row inmates has legal action pending against the state that questions the constitutionality of lethal injection. The inmates’ executions were scheduled to occur between October of this year and March 2016, the Post reports, and their suspension has momentarily ceased all capital…
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