Tennessee governor orders stay of execution after doctor can’t find vein
by Edward Helmore, Maya Yang and agency from on (#75SNX)
Tony Carruthers's lawyers say no evidence ties him to 1994 crimes he was convicted of and he is mentally incompetent
Tennessee governor Bill Lee has granted a one-year stay of execution to 57-year old Tony Carruthers after officials struggled to locate a vein during a lethal injection attempt.
On Thursday, Lee issued the stay to Carruthers as his lawyer Maria DeLiberato was speaking to reporters, the Associated Press reported. Carruthers had been sentenced to death after being found guilty of the 1994 murders of three people in Memphis: Marcellos Anderson, 21; his mother, Delois Anderson, 43; and Frederick Tucker, 17.
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