Tennessee execution paused after corrections couldn’t find a vein, lawyers say

Tennessee execution paused after corrections couldn’t find a vein, lawyers say
The execution for Tony Carruthers was called off Thursday after the state department of corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line.“Medical personnel quickly established a primary IV line; however, the team was unable to immediately establish a backup line pursuant to the lethal injection execution protocol,” according to a statement from the Tennessee Department of Corrections