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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee then granted Carruthers a ...

Tennessee halted the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said, after the officers tasked with establishing an intravenous line through which to administer lethal ...

Tony Carruthers’ execution was called off Thursday and he was given a one-year reprieve after the state Department of Corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line. Subscribe to ...

Tony Carruthers, convicted in connection with three 1994 murders, was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning. By Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Emily Cochrane reported from Nashville ...

Tennessee’s governor granted a one-year stay of execution for Tony Carruthers after his lethal injection was halted Thursday when officials struggled to find a vein for more than an hour. Maria ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced he is issuing a temporary one-year reprieve after death row inmate Tony Carruthers’ execution was stalled due to medical complications Thursday ...

Convicted killer Leroy Dean McGill was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday in Arizona’s first execution of 2026. Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry officials said the ...

A federal judge denied the latest effort to pause the execution of Tony Carruthers, who is scheduled to be executed on May 21. His attorneys sought to have fingerprint and DNA evidence tested, which ...

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Slemmer was found with a pentagram carved into her chest, and Pike kept a piece of her skull as a sounvenir. The convicted killer has ...

In August 2024, Wade Wilson was sentenced to death for the 2019 murders of two women. Nearly two years later, has a date been set for his execution? Wilson, who is currently incarcerated at Union ...