Entries tagged with “Anthony Hines”

Jul 07, 2026

Tennessee Republican State Senators Call on Governor Lee to Review the ​“Incompetent Administration” Leading to the Botched Execution of Tony Carruthers

In a let­ter dat­ed June 25, 2026, a group of nine Tennessee Republican sen­a­tors called on Governor Bill Lee to com­mis­sion an inde­pen­dent review of the failed exe­cu­tion of Tony Carruthers, to order the cor­rec­tion of​“every defi­cien­cy” found in this review, and to make infor­ma­tion about the exe­cu­tion team pub­licly avail­able​“so that the Department \[of Corrections’\] readi­ness can be inde­pen­dent­ly ver­i­fied.” While the sen­a­tors main­tain their sup­port for the…