The horrors of the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers have stayed with me. Our public safety reporter, Brittany Brown, was there and will publish more about her experiences soon. But I also asked Almeer Nance, who has been imprisoned since 1996, for his thoughts:
For more than 30 years, Tony Carruthers has lived under a sentence of death in the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Not a metaphorical death. A literal one. A sentence so close to becoming final that he is only still alive today because the State couldn’t find a vein during the execution attempt.
Think about that for a moment…