Tennessee prison officials are refusing to confirm that they will not be using expired lethal injection drugs to execute Tony Carruthers on Thursday morning. Medical experts say the use of out-of-date — and thus less potent — chemicals and drugs for lethal injections raises the risk of prolonged and painful death. In Tennessee, the discovery in 2022 that the state had failed to properly test lethal injection drugs led to a three-year pause in e…
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