Governor Lee Taking Decisive Actions To Ensure Proper Protocol At TDOC

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is announcing a sequence of decisive actions to ensure proper protocol is being followed at the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Among those actions include staffing changes at the department’s leadership level, hiring a permanent TDOC commissioner in January, revising the state’s lethal injection protocol, and a review of all training associated with the revised protocol updates. Lee’s announcement follows a month long third party review of lethal injection operations at TDOC that was recently released to the public.