In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

Tennessee set out to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026, but he lived to tell about it. Carruthers, who was sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder, survived his date with death when the ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Delois Anderson was 43 years old. Marcellos Anderson was 21. Frederick Tucker was 17. For 32 years, their names have remained tied to one man inside Tennessee courtrooms, ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee death row inmate has at least one more year to live after the state “botched” his execution Thursday morning. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by 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. Limited time: ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve Thursday after Tennessee halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers amid reported problems establishing IV ...