Opinion: I thought I hated the death penalty in all the ways there are to hate it. But now I also hate it because Tennessee is embarrassingly bad at it.

Smith, who was convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday morning, marking the return of the state’s death penalty

Filing contends studies have proven use of pentobarbital causes a ‘tortuous death’

The state will resume executing people on death row using the single drug pentobarbital