Tennessee is refusing to release its new execution manual. Here is why it matters
FILE – Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, gives a tour of the prison’s execution chamber in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 13, 1999. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) Days after announcing a new manual for executing death row inmates, Tennessee’s top prison officials said they aren’t going to release the document to the public. NASHVILLE, Tenn….
