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"Tony Carruthers’ case is a perfect storm of capital punishment’s familiar failures: paid informants, information withheld from the jury, untested physical evidence." If he is put to death, it would be a serious miscarriage of justice.

slate.comThis Looming Tennessee Execution Would Be One of the Most Abhorrent in History. There’s Still Time to Stop It.Tennessee plans to put Tony Carruthers to death on May 21. He would be the 17th execution in the Volunteer State in the last half-century.

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“Most egregiously, Carruthers was forced to be his own lawyer during his trial. If Carruthers is executed, he would be the first person in nearly a century to be executed after being forced to represent himself.”