NASHVILLE, Tenn. (NASHVILLE BANNER) — We typically don't hear much from Tennessee's death row.
For years, the state refused to allow cameras inside — or for the most part — reporters.
But the eyes of the nation are now fixed on Unit 2, as it's called, because of an allegation of torture. This all started when the prison refused to deliver a special incentive meal to Henry Hodges, a condemned man with a long history of mental illness.
What has happened since that day last month is reviving a long-running national debate.
Should states be allowed to execute the severely mentally ill?
