Tennessee officials were forced to abandon the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after prison staff failed to establish the intravenous access required for a lethal injection.
The halted execution took place at a maximum-security prison in Nashville and lasted more than an hour before officials eventually called it off. Carruthers, 57, had been sentenced to death over the 1994 kidnapping and murders of three people, but instead of being executed, he was returned to his cell after repeated difficulties during the procedure.
