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Stockard on the Stump: Tennessee senators blame dehydration in botched execution
Republican senators said dehydration helped derail Tony Carruthers’ execution and questioned the doctor’s role as Tennessee prepares more lethal injections.
Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican Sen. Ferrell Haile of Gallatin, who…