Tony Carruthers’ lawyers ask for execution to be stopped, say corrections can’t find vein for IV line
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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.“The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been unable to obtain intravenous access to administer lethal injection to Mr.
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