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Tennessee Puts a Man to Death for a 1985 Murder in the Second of Three U.S. Executions Set for the Same Day

Nine state senators urged Governor Bill Lee to spare Hines, citing disability concerns and doubts about Tennessee’s current lethal-injection protocol.

  • Tennessee executed Anthony Darrell Hines by lethal injection on Thursday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins.
  • Governor Bill Lee upheld the sentence on Tuesday, denying clemency despite attorneys arguing Hines's medical condition, including muscular atrophy from strokes, risked lethal injection complications.
  • Attorneys and medical professionals expressed concern the same team involved in Tony Carruthers's failed May execution would oversee Hines's procedure, citing IV access difficulties.
  • Prison officials pronounced Hines dead at 10:43 a.m. following the 10 a.m. execution; Melissa Jenkins, daughter of Catherine, thanked prosecutors and the court system.
  • This execution occurred amid a national spike in capital punishment, with Alabama and Oklahoma also scheduling executions as Tennessee's protocol remains under scrutiny.
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Tennessee Conservative broke the news on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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