Law reportedly allows Tennessee to plan executions in secret

[Judi Lynn]

Source: MSNBC

Law reportedly allows Tennessee to plan executions in secret
03/23/14 02:36 PM
By Aliyah Frumin

As Tennessee officials push to execute a record number of people, a recently passed law will now allow them to plan in secret.

According to a report in The Tennessean, legislation passed a year ago allows the state to withhold all kinds of information from the public, including the type of drugs the state plans to use, who the drug manufacturer is, and exactly who will carry out the executions.

Other states, including Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia have similar laws on the books.

“Tennesseans should be concerned because these executions are ostensibly for them,” Kelley Henry – an assistant federal public defender representing 11 inmates suing the state to make the information public – told the newspaper. “They are carried out in the name of the people.”

He added: “The people have a right to know that the Department of Corrections isn’t torturing citizens using public funds.”


Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/law-reportedly-allows-tennessee-to-plan-executions-in-secret

[Nanjing to Seoul]

1. Actually, we lost that right with Gitmo and Abu Garib. Sorry, we have no problems torturing people

Google "black man" "police brutality" "torture" and see what you get.

This law is just one more step for the country to go swirling down the toilet bowl.

[DeSwiss]

8. +1000

- But we'll have great health insurance to help us heal our wounds. So focus on the positive, and just close your eyes the rest of the time.......

[gopiscrap]

10. No kidding and the sorrow of it is

most of the US was a sleep at the wheel or too busy being sheep....perhaps we could have nipped this totalitarian shit in the bud if we had gone nuts on the government back then.

[Riftaxe]

2. Without a drone

It not really count now, does it? Other then to the person at the receiving end.



Hell of a headline, nice to see MSNBC trying to replace the weekly world news, they been striving to fill that niche for a long time.

[Ken Burch]

3. Is this for the already convicted, or just for people they don't like?

Knowing the Red States, you have to check on those things.

[Riftaxe]

4. Will only apply to the Convicted

Article is bat boy crazy need for ratings, i suspect. Very little in it is objectionable.

[tofuandbeer]

5. Oh hell, that's convenient. WTF?!!!

[yuiyoshida]

7. Somewhat secret for years...

[gopiscrap]

9. That's totally fucked up

[blackspade]

11. What is the reasoning for the secrecy?

Is this an 'out of sight out of mind' attempt to prevent public sentiment from turning against the death penalty?

[JoeyT]

12. Presumably to circumvent challenges

that will come when they can't get their hands on the preferred drug of execution and they decide to inject people with goat semen or frog eyes or whatever else they've got handy to see if it works.

If we're not going to tell you how we're going to kill you, you can hardly claim the method of execution is cruel and unusual, can you?