A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media's access and hamper thorough and accurate reporting.
Currently, reporters witnessing lethal injections do not see the entire process. The coalition argues the protocols violate “the public and press’s statutory and constitutional rights to witness the entirety of executions conducted by the Tennessee Department of Correction, from the time the condemned enters the execution chamber until after the condemned is declared dead.”
