A health worker prepares an anesthetic injection inside a caravan at Epworth Poly Clinic in Epworth, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, Aug.

Tennessee’s failed execution raises questions about the veil of secrecy that execution teams operate under and whether there is a flaw in the protocol that led to things going wrong.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee did not heed those warnings. Now, the defining image of the death penalty in 2026 is a woman strapped ...