The price of defiance: How Tennessee built a broken execution system
Newly unsealed court filings and depositions indicate that Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada ignored warnings regarding the state's execution procedures. These documents shed light on the history of botched executions in the state.
The reason behind this latest breakdown is neither complex nor mysterious. Newly unsealed court filings and sworn depositions reveal that the state’s top prison official simply chose to ignore the warnings.
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