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Exonerated Survivors Plead for Carruthers
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Three exonerated death row survivors, Ray Krone, Sabrina Butler-Smith, and Ndume Olatushani, urged Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute or pause the execution of Tony Carruthers for fresh DNA tests. Carruthers has been on death row since 1996 for a brutal 1994 crime, with evidence mostly tied to statements from a co-defendants brother who later killed himself. The co-defendant got a new trial and walked free in 2016, while Carruthers represented himself after firing six lawyers due to severe mental illness. The survivors argue that retesting Carruthers DNA is basic justice when lives hang in the balance, as Tennessees Innocence Project has cleared ten people in the last five years, serving over three hundred years combined.
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