KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — UPDATE WEDNESDAY: A Knox County chancellor said Wednesday he'll review - behind closed doors - information sought by a death row inmate about the state's lethal injection drug.

By agreement, the state has two weeks to produce the records for the chancellor's review.

Attorneys for Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, have been trying since May under the state public records law to learn information from the Tennessee Department of Correction such as the state's quantity of Pentobarbital, storage and expiration or use-by dates.

Attorney Luke Inhen of Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, or FDSET, told the chancellor during a more than two-hour hearing Wednesday afternoon that TDOC is using a secrecy statute that protects release of the identities of people actually in

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