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.

The complaint also challenges a "12-hour blackout" policy adopted by TDOC, which "directs the warden to 'ensure non-contact visits and phone calls -- excluding visits and calls from the inmate's ...

After a five-year reprieve from executions after errors were revealed in the previous protocol, on March 3 the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May.

Death row executions were paused until this year. The nine death row inmates say that “TDOC has selected a poison that has been shown through recent evidence to pose a high risk of a tortuous ...

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 ...

This investigation was conducted by the TDOC Office of Investigation and Conduct. During breakfast on June 7, 2023, while working the chow hall during breakfast, the Correction Officers were to start ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — State executions should resume in May after the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) completed its multi-year revision of the state’s lethal injection protocol.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed ... creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection administered by TDOC will be tortured to death,” the suit says.