Tennessee governor hands-off as AG moves for more executions

SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee governor is refraining from weighing in on the attorney general’s request to schedule executions for nine death-row prisoners and restore a 10th inmate’s death sentence.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that it is Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s prerogative to request the execution dates and to challenge a court’s decision commuting a death sentence to life in prison.
As a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, Lee touted his Chris