The State of Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers Thursday . The Supreme Court of Tennessee ordered the state ...

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 ...

Carruthers was set to be executed on Thursday, May 21, but the execution was canceled after a failed lethal injection.

Executioners failed to set an IV to administer the lethal injection.

Tennessee halted Tony Carruthers’ execution after officials failed to set a required backup IV line. Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve as his lawyer described a painful scene.

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

Tony Carruthers, 57, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the 1994 kidnappings and murders of Marcellos ...

Tony Carruthers has been scheduled to be executed by the state of Tennessee, but his lawyer claims that there is no physical ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

Tony Carruthers, who has been on death for 30 years, declined a final meal prior to his failed execution on May 21.

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 ...

A Tennessee death row inmate was spared execution Thursday morning after medical personnel failed to find a vein to deliver a ...