The person charged with administering the lethal drug failed to find a vein, and the execution was aborted, according to a ...

Tony Carruthers returned to death row last week after surviving the state’s failed attempt to execute him by lethal injection. After the public failure by the Tennessee Department of Correction, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The execution of a Tennessee death row inmate has been postponed after staff were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal ...

Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning in Tennessee, have filed an emergency stay ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt ...

Capital defense lawyer Maria DeLiberato met her client last March. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to face the death penalty ...

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

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

TDOC called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A Memphis man was not executed on Thursday morning after staff had to call off the procedure. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection at Riverbend ...