Two officials with the Tennessee Department of Correction have been fired following the release of a report exposing numerous oversights in their handling of state executions.
. Nationwide, the 18 executions carried out in 2022 marked the fewest in any pre-pandemic year since 1991, with seven of last year's 20 execution attempts visibly problematic or taking an inordinate amount of time, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The notices to Inglis and Young instructed them to turn in their IDs by day's end Dec. 27 and not report for 10 paid workdays, with Jan. 10 their last official day, according to the documents. The review found Tennessee hasn't complied with its own lethal injection process since revisions in 2018, resulting in several executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs on hand — and in two cases, used to kill the inmate. Five other inmates executed since 2018 died in the electric chair. Tennessee’s rules stipulate the drugs need to be tested no matter the execution method used.
"The fact of the matter is not one TDOC employee made it their duty to understand the current Protocol’s testing requirements and ensure compliance," the report said. have used pentobarbital, a drug Tennessee officials have said they can't obtain for executions. In the three executions carried out by Arizona this year, corrections also officers struggled to find suitable veins for IV lines to deliver the lethal injection.
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