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Execution Facts


The Department of Correction is charged with carrying out death sentences in Tennessee. Although methods have changed, capital punishment has existed in Tennessee, off and on, throughout its history. In 1998, lethal injection becaome the method of execution for those offenses committed on or after January 1, 1999.

Administration of Death Sentence in Tennessee (pdf format)(85 kb)

Death Penalty in Tennessee

Capital Punishment Chronology (pdf format)(38 kb)

Deathwatch

Media Witness Application (pdf format)(27kb)

Riverbend Maximum Security Institution

Tennessee Executions

Witnesses

Women on Deathrow

 


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