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| Scene' sues for execution protocol records access |
| By The Nashville City Paper |
| Published: 04/18/2007 |
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NASHVILLE, TN - The Nashville Scene on Tuesday upped its ante against the Department of Correction (DOC), following up a February open records request with a lawsuit asking the Davidson County Chancery Court to intervene on the newspaper's behalf and force the DOC to argue in open court why it must continue to keep records relating to the development of a new execution protocol off-limits to the public. The dispute goes back to Feb. 1, when Gov. Phil Bredesen issued Executive Order 43, directing Correction Commissioner George Little to review the state's lethal injection protocol and, by May 2, to “establish and provide... new protocols and related written procedures for administering death sentences in Tennessee, both by lethal injection and execution.” Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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