Nashville Scene sues state over death penalty protocols

Nashville's alt-weekly Nashville Scene has filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court against Tennessee's Department of Corrections, seeking to make the state shed some light on its current effort to fine-tune how it puts condemned prisoners to death.

According to the Scene's attorney, John P. Williams of the law firm Tune, Entrekin and White, the lawsuit is a result of a open-records request that has been denied by the Department of Corrections and its commissioner, George Little.