MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tony Carruthers, a Tennessee inmate, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday unless Tennessee Governor Bill Lee chooses to halt it.
Carruthers has spent more than 30 years on death row after being convicted in a 1994 Memphis kidnapping and murder case.
Former jailers support halting Tony Carruthers’ execution
Carruthers and his alleged accomplice, “James Montgomery,” were convicted of kidnapping, torturing, and burying alive a mother, her son, and his friend back in 1996.
One of the victims was as young as 17 years old…