A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions.

The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

As part of the settlement, TDOC will pay $7,000 each to three inmates in damages and $3.25 million to Disability Rights Tennessee. The agency will distribute the payments, according to court ...

Of the $91.5 million in new funding, $36.9 million will go toward boosting TDOC employee salaries, $21.7 million will go toward Hepatitis C treatments for inmates, and the remainder will go to ...

In the suit, the inmates claim the drug’s scarcity, difficulty in obtaining it, and overall secrecy surrounding the state’s supply of it, all point to constitutional violations by the TDOC.