MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers is facing execution by lethal injection Thursday morning after Governor Bill Lee declined to intervene or commute his death sentence Tuesday.
Carruthers was convicted in 1996 in a Memphis kidnapping and murder case and has been on death row for more than 30 years.
Tony Carruthers, 59, and his accomplice, James Montgomery, were found guilty of kidnapping, torturing, and burying alive Delouis Anderson, her son Marcellos Anderson, and a friend, Frederick Tucker, in 1994.
While both men were sentenced to death, Montgomery was able to walk free in 2015 under an appeals court ruling that Montgomery should have had a separate trial from Carruthers…