Tennessee set to execute Tony Carruthers by lethal injection
Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers by lethal injection after courts denied requests to test DNA and fingerprint evidence and ruled that he is mentally competent.
Carruthers was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of the 1994 kidnappings and murders of Marcellos Anderson; his mother, Delois Anderson; and Frederick Tucker.
There was no physical evidence tying Carruthers to the killings, and he was convicted primarily on the basis of testimony from people who claimed to have heard him confess to or discuss the crimes.
Carruthers was forced to represent himself at trial after repeatedly complaining about court-appointed attorneys and threatening to harm several of them.
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