Bill Lee: “We know that veterans experience a higher prevalence of pain and are twice as likely to die from accidental opioid…”

It’s a tragedy, and it’s deeply disturbing that that has happened in this state. The people deserve better than that.

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

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

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.