Tennessee is preparing to execute Tony Carruthers, whose defenders question trial fairness
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers on Thursday after his attorneys questioned whether the state’s lethal injection drugs had expired and courts denied requests to test DNA and fingerprint evidence or to deem him mentally incompetent. Tony Carruthers, 57, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the 1994 kidnappings … Read more