Bill Lee: “It appears that you want, and your agency wants to actually deconstruct the department that you are leading.”

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

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

I hope that Tennessee governor Bill Lee’s decision to postpone the last execution scheduled for this year will give lawmakers time to consider the subject seriously.

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.