Tenn. Republicans: Legislature to investigate other execution methods after failed lethal injections

By: Cassandra Stephenson

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: October 7, 2026

Words: 841

Last Updated: 3 days, 12 hours ago

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Republican leaders in Tennessee’s legislature say they will investigate the reliability of lethal injection as an execution method after the state failed to execute two death row inmates in the span of five months.

Gov. Bill Lee stopped the May execution of Tony Carruthers after a physician unsuccessfully attempted to insert intravenous lines to begin the lethal injection process for over an hour. Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two failed …

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