Bill Lee: “I am deeply concerned to hear about a possible expansion of the 2001 authorization to use force.”

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

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 our state deserve to have those questions answered. And that’s what this investigation’s for.

We have really seen the airport board and commissioners just step right into one decision to the next to make sure that this happened.