Tennessee officials have called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over an hour to establish an intravenous line.

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate say they are concerned the state may be planning to use expired lethal injection drugs at a planned execution on Thursday

Tennessee officials have called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and…

The botched insertion caused Carruthers to be in pain as he lost “lots of blood,” one of his public defenders said.