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Tennessee Will Resume Death Row Executions In April, 2014

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After a three-year delay, the state will resume executions of death row inmates this year. 

Officials with the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts confirmed yesterday that the state plans to execute ten death row inmates in the next two years. The Tennessean newspaper reports the state has scheduled three executions for this year, seven for next year.

Last September, the state changed the drug protocol that will now be used in lethal injections. Pharmaceutical companies stopped offering the drug sodium thiopental in 2011.

A Davidson County judge has been asked to halt the executions because of questions about the new drug.

Death row inmate Nickolus Johnson is scheduled to die April 22nd

    

Chrissy served as WUOT's News Director and host of monthly public affairs talk show Dialogue from late 2021 to early 2023. Her first job with the station was as weekend student announcer while earning her bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. She had previously been the station's local host for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered news programs; occasionally filled in as host for WUOT's Morning and Afternoon Concerts; and won multiple awards for her interviews, feature stories, and Dialogue.