SMYRNA, Tenn. - Tennessee’s governor is refraining from weighing in on the attorney general’s request to schedule executions for nine death-row prisoners and restore a 10th inmate’s death sentence. Tennessee, which performed three executions last year, was second only to Texas, which carried out 13. “The Supreme Court and the attorney general make determinations about executions ... and how that process unfolds,” Lee told reporters Thursday. The state Supreme Court then schedules the executions. Executions in Tennessee are carried out through lethal injection unless the drugs are unavailable, in which case the electric chair is used.

Source: thestar September 26, 2019 20:09 UTC