Your soul better belong to Jesus cause your ass is about to fry like a chicken in hot grease you bastards

Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was officially pronounced dead, his attorney told a judge on Friday. This legal challenge is part of a broader lawsuit initiated in Nashville’s Chancery Court, which directly disputes the state's latest lethal injection protocol, asserting it violates both federal and state constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment. In the hearing, state Deputy Attorney General Cody Brandon argued that requiring members of the execution team to testify risks exposing their identities, even if their faces are hidden and their voices are disguised.

Instead, he proposed that Tennessee Department of Correction officials could testify. If the inmates' attorneys designate the appropriate topics, the agency is required to provide witnesses with knowledge of those topics, he said.

Henry, who leads a group of federal public defenders representing indigent death row inmates in Middle Tennessee, said only the people who were actually there will be able to answer the question of what went wrong during Black's Aug. 5 execution.

An Alabama death row inmate was executed by nitrogen gas, a method the state began using last year, in relation to his 1993 conviction for his alleged role in the killing of a man over a $200 drug debt on Thursday reports.

Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at William C. Holman Correctional Facility at 6:33 p.m. local time. Boyd was sentenced to death in relation to the murder of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County, with prosecutors claiming Huguley was set on fire after failing to pay for $200 worth of cocaine.

“There can be no justice until we change this system,” he added, intending to express his love for those still fighting the system before concluding with, “Let’s get it.”

Boyd's death was reported to take longer than previous nitrogen gas executions, though the state doesn't reveal the exact time gas begins flowing. Boyd was reported to have initially shown signs of discomfort at around 5:57 p.m. local time before taking heavy breaths at around 6:01 p.m., which lasted about 15 minutes before becoming still.

The curtain to the execution chamber was closed at around 6:27 p.m. and gas continued to flow for five minutes after monitoring showed that Boyd no longer had a heartbeat. Lethal injection was the preferred way to execute death row prisoners in the U.S. for decades, but alternatives have been taken, with four executions by gas and two by firing squad.