CONVICTED KILLERS SAY TN LETHAL INJECTION IS NOT HUMANE, SUES THE STATE

Attorneys for 33 death row inmates and the state have finished a nearly two-week trial challenging Tennessee’s new lethal injection procedure. A decision is expected by the week’s end. In Davidson County Chancery Court, federal public defender Kelley Henry said Tuesday the three-drug method amounts to torture. Deputy state Attorney General Scott Sutherland said the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld midazolam in a three-drug series. He said inmates’ attorneys must identify an alternative and haven’t.