NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Attorneys for the next man scheduled to be executed in Tennessee are asking Gov. Bill Lee to grant a reprieve, arguing the state should demonstrate it can constitutionally and humanely carry out an execution before moving forward with another one.
Anthony Darrell Hines is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 5 for the 1985 rape, robbery, and murder of Katherine Jean Jenkins at a motel in Kingston Springs.
The request comes weeks after the state halted the execution of Tony Carruthers in May. The Tennessee Department of Correction told News 2 medical personnel could not find a vein to establish a secondary IV line to administer the lethal injection drug, which is pursuant to the state’s execution protocol.
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“They tortured him… I mean, he said he was in pain,” Maria DeLiberato, senior counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, said in May. “The fact that he said, ‘I can feel that and it hurts,’ and they stuck him anyway—that is absolutely torture and a violation of the Eighth Amendment.”…