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Maya Yang

Top Tennessee pair fired after damning review of state’s execution protocol

In this 1999 photo, the execution chamber at the  Riverbend maximum security institution in Nashville.
In this 1999 photo, the execution chamber at the Riverbend maximum security institution in Nashville. Photograph: Mark Humphrey/AP

Two top Tennessee officials have been fired by the corrections department after an independent report revealed striking errors in the state’s lethal injection execution protocol.

According to official documents reviewed by the Tennessean newspaper, the deputy commissioner and general counsel, Debra Inglis, was fired, as well as inspector general Kelly Young, on 27 December.

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