By Angela Hatton
Nashville, TN – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a Tennessee death row inmate's challenge to the state's lethal injection process. The court rejected without comment Monday an appeal from Edward Jerome Harbison. He was convicted in the 1983 beating death of an elderly woman in Chattanooga. A federal judge in Nashville ruled in 2007 that the Tennessee lethal injection process involves an "unnecessary ... infliction of pain." But the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati overturned that ruling after the Supreme Court in 2008 upheld Kentucky's lethal injection process, which is similar to Tennessee's.