Tennessee officials 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 to find a vein

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

Execution method has long raised questions about cruel and unusual punishment and botched executions.

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