On May 21, Tennessee authorities stopped the scheduled lethal injection of Tony Carruthers following a failed hour-long attempt to establish an intravenous line. The 57-year-old was sentenced for the ...

Following a the failed execution Tony Carruthers, defense attorneys have filed a lawsuit in Davidson County challenging ...

Attorneys argue the reprieve granted to Tony Carruthers should extend to all other executions. The mother of a death row ...

Defense attorneys describe the hour-long attempt to execute Tony Carruthers, a death row inmate from Memphis convicted in a ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

Christa Pike’s attorney said last week’s halted execution of Tony Carruthers raises concerns about Tennessee’s lethal ...

Defense attorneys are urging Gov. Bill Lee to pause all executions in Tennessee after what they call a botched lethal ...

A DEATH row inmate has been spared execution after doctors failed to find a vein for a lethal injection. Tony Carruthers, 57, was granted a one-year reprieve at Riverbend Maximum Security ...

Tony Carruthers was granted a one-year reprieve from death after his executioners failed to find a vein for lethal injection.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Defense attorneys filed a civil action lawsuit asking the court to rule lethal injection as unconstitutional ...

It is the sixth failed lethal-injection execution in less than 10 years.