Top Tennessee pair fired after damning review of state’s execution protocol

Report revealed multiple executions in recent years carried out without proper testing of lethal injection drugs

Two top Tennessee officials have been fired by the corrections department after an independent report revealed striking errors in the state's lethal injection execution protocol.

According to official documents reviewed by the Tennessean newspaper, the deputy commissioner and general counsel, Debra Inglis, was fired, as well as inspector general Kelly Young, on 27 December.