The gurney and electric chair sit inside the execution chamber connected to the witness gallery Thursday, March 2, 2017, at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: Lacy Atkins, Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean)The state's high court denied a request from the Tennessee attorney general to schedule eight executions before June 1, when the state's top lawyer believes the availability of lethal injection drugs would become "uncertain."
But the Tennessee Supreme Court did set two execution dates later this year for death row inmates.
The decision calls into question whether the state has the capacity to actually carry out those executions, what would be the first for Tennessee since 2007.
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