Execution in Tennessee Death-Row Case Hangs on Questionable Jailhouse Snitch

Tony Carruthers, sentenced to death for a 1994 Memphis triple murder, faces execution amid doubts about the conviction rooted in Alfredo Shaw’s jailhouse testimony, which records later showed Shaw was a paid informant; Shaw recanted, Carruthers’ self-representation and lack of physical evidence have long raised questions, and advocates see this as part of a broader pattern of wrongful convictions tied to snitch testimony, even as Governor Bill Lee declined clemency.