Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee granted death row inmate Tony Carruthers a temporary one-year reprieve after state officials halted his scheduled lethal injection on Thursday because execution personnel could not establish the required IV access.
The reprieve runs until May 21, 2027.
That does not wipe away the sentence. It means Tennessee could come back and try again after the state figures out what went wrong inside the execution chamber.
Carruthers, 57, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at Tennessee’s Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on May 21, 2026.
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According to multiple reports, the execution was stopped after officials spent more than an hour trying to establish the IV access required under Tennessee’s protocol.
Tennessee Lookout laid out the governor’s reprieve and the
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