Tennessee suspends executions
The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended executions of convicted murderers calling them cruel and unusual punishment. This halted people from getting executed and that was scheduled for early 2016.
"We're grateful that the Tennessee Supreme Court saw fit to lift these execution dates at least temporarily as the courts are proceeding with all this litigation," Stacy Rector, executive director of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, told The Huffington Post by phone Monday.
The court may set new execution dates as the anti-death penalty proceeds any further.
Inmates on death row have sued the state because they are calling being ejected with drugs cruel and unusual.
Electric Chair trails next month and drug injection trials will be held in July.
May 2014 electric chair was a back up to the injections.
Lethal injection supplies are beginning to be harder to find due to all the multiple bans.
Since 2000, Tennessee has executed six inmates and exonerated three. (One of those exonerated inmates accepted a deal to plead guilty to a lesser crime in exchange for freedom.)
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