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Gov. Bill Lee stops Tony Von Carruthers' execution for 1 year after corrections couldn’t establish backup IV line | wbir.com
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Bill Lee stops Tony Von Carruthers' execution for 1 year after corrections couldn’t establish backup IV line | wbir.com.NASHVILLE, Tenn.Bill Lee has officially granted a temporary reprieve for Tony Von Carruthers after medical personnel could not establish a backup IV line for his execution, set for Thursday morning in Nashville, calling off his execution for one year.In a statement, Gov.Lee said: “I am granting Tony Von Carruthers a temporary reprieve from execution for one year.” The release said that medical personnel were able to establish a primary IV line, but could not "immediately establish a backup line pursuant to the lethal injection execution protocol." The release also stated that they continued to follow protocol but could not find "another suitable vein" and tried to insert a central line, but this was not successful.Officials said that, after that, the execution was called off.Prior to the execution being called off, attorneys for Carruthers filed an emergency stay of execution Thursday, claiming corrections was unable to set an IV line to administer lethal injection drugs.“The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been unable to obtain intravenous access to administer lethal injection to Mr.Carruthers,” according to the emergency motion filed in state and federal courts in Tennessee Thursday.“Repeated attempts to obtain access at alternate IV sites have been unsuccessful.” Federal public defender Amy Harwell told NBC News that the execution is paused and that Carruthers is currently “off the gurney” and being medically assessed.“The State of Tennessee is currently torturing a man who maintains his innocence in the name of justice.This is not how our system is supposed to work,” said Melanie Verdecia, counsel for Tony Carruthers alongside the ACLU.Carruthers was the first person scheduled to be executed in Tennessee this year.On Wednesday, lawyers for Carruthers said they were worried that the state was using expired drugs for the execution.Last month, his lawyers filed a motion for post conviction DNA testing to have unmatched fingerprints and other DNA evidence in the case tested against an alternate suspect.Carruthers’ lawyers have repeatedly sought assurances from TDOC that expired drugs would not be used in the execution on Thursday.TDOC has refused to provide any such explicit assurance,” the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee said in a statement.Tennessee ended a three-year pause on executions last year.The moratorium came after it was discovered the state was not properly testing lethal injection drugs for purity and potency.An independent review later found that the drugs used on seven inmates in 2018 had been fully tested.NBC News has reached out to the Tennessee Department of Corrections and Governor Bill Lee for comment on the emergency motion to stay the execution.The Tennessee attorney general’s office has declined to comment.