Bill Lee: “After six decades of failure it is long past time for the United States to try something different.”

There are a lot of questions. The people of our state deserve to have those questions answered.

So far as we know, the Department of Correction followed exactly the protocol that was outlined and vetted and approved by the attorney general’s office.

The people of Tennessee have determined that the death penalty is the appropriate penalty for the most heinous crimes in the state.

I have ordered a pause on all executions for the remainder of the year.