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Attorneys for Tennessee inmate worry state could use expired drugs for lethal injection

Lawyers for Tennessee inmate Tony Carruthers expressed concern that expired lethal injection drugs might be used in his execution amid Tennessee's refusal to confirm the drugs' expiration status.
Carruthers' execution was called off after officials failed to find a vein for over an hour, causing him visible pain during attempts to establish intravenous lines required for lethal injection.
Carruthers was sentenced to death for the 1994 kidnappings and murders of three people in Memphis; his conviction relied mainly on testimony from witnesses, and his case has attracted national attention due to claims of no physical evidence directly linking him to the crimes.
The case has drawn calls from figures like Kim Kardashian and organizations such as the ACLU urging further forensic testing to address the concerns surrounding the conviction.

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