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Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, convicted of a brutal triple murder in 1994, are urging Governor Bill Lee to grant clemency before his scheduled execution on May 21st. The case relied heavily on informant testimony, with no physical evidence linking Carruthers to the crime. His codefendant was freed over a decade ago, and fingerprints and DNA from the scene have never been tested. Lawyers argue the trial was unfair due to Carruthers self-representation, linked to his mental illness, which led to mistakes. Recent revelations show prosecutors hid that a key informant was paid by the state and later recanted his story. The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit to force testing on untouched forensic evidence. As the clemency push intensifies, the governors team will consider why executing Carruthers could mean a grave injustice after thirty years of unanswered questions.

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