Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Tony Carruthers by lethal injection, after courts denied further requests from his attorneys. Carruthers, 57, is convicted in connection with the 1994 kidnappings and murders of Marcellos Anderson, his mother Delois Anderson, and Frederick Tucker in Memphis, and was sentenced to death. Multiple reports say Carruthers’s defense challenges trial fairness, including claims that there is no physical evidence tying him to the crimes and that he is mentally incompetent. His lawyers also sought DNA and fingerprint testing, and courts rejected those requests. Another line of challenge concerns the state’s evidence, with one outlet reporting that Carruthers’s conviction relied on testimony from a paid informant who has recanted. Separate concerns are raised about the execution process itself: attorneys question whether the lethal injection drugs Tennessee plans to use are expired. One report also notes a prior botched execution attempt in which Tennessee began the process but did not complete it.