Alabama seeks lethal injection execution
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Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning in Tennessee, have filed an emergency stay of execution, claiming corrections has been unable to set an IV line to administer lethal injection drugs.
It is the sixth failed lethal-injection execution in less than 10 years.
Tony Carruthers was granted a one-year reprieve from death after his executioners failed to find a vein for lethal injection.
