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Tony Carruthers, 57, is scheduled for execution in Tennessee as his lawyers challenge whether the state’s lethal-injection drugs were properly tested and seek DNA/fingerprint testing and a mental-competence ruling; he was convicted largely on informant testimony with no physical evidence after representing himself at trial.
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.