TCA 40-23-115
Maintenance of death chamber
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The state is required to maintain the execution chamber and related facilities for carrying out death sentences, including the lethal injection equipment.
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The commissioner of correction shall ensure that a permanent and suitable death chamber is kept and maintained within a penitentiary of this state, as defined in § 41-1-101(b), and that an electrical apparatus, together with all necessary appliances sufficient for the infliction of punishment of death as provided in § 40-23-114, is kept and maintained in the death chamber.
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TCA Section40-23-115