Earlier this year, Tennessee considered a bill that would have made death penalty information more public. The bill died in committee, but circulated around the topic of drugs used for executions and whether their makers and ingredients are confidential under the state’s public records law.

“The identity of a supplier that compounds, distributes, or manufactures the drugs obtained and used by the department of correction to carry out an execution by lethal injection is not confidential,” the bill reads.

According to WPLN, lawyers for a sentenced man have been fighting for access to information like this ahead of his scheduled execution. One of the bill’s sponsors, state senator Mark Pody, posed a similar bill in 2024 but it was also shot down. The current legislation did not address whether the ingredients of execution serum should be made public.

Posted: July 17, 2026
Category: Brechner News
Tagged as: Secrecy Tracker