2026-05-21 19:51:34 UTC / 路透社
作者：乔纳森·艾伦
2026年5月21日 世界标准时间19:51 更新于2分钟前
5月21日（路透社）——田纳西州监狱官员周四中止了对一名谋杀定罪男子的死刑执行尝试，原因是他们未能找到适合注射死刑的静脉。
田纳西州州长比尔·李随后对57岁的托尼·卡拉瑟斯给予了为期一年的死刑缓期执行。卡拉瑟斯因1994年绑架并杀害三人被判死刑。
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据作为媒体证人到场的美联社记者透露，卡拉瑟斯被押解至纳什维尔一所最高安全级监狱的死刑室后，监狱官员花费了一个多小时尝试建立静脉输液通道，随后取消了行刑程序，将他送回牢房。
田纳西州惩教部门在一份声明中表示，官员们成功建立了一条主要静脉输液通道，但难以按照该州死刑注射协议的要求搭建“备用通道”。
“我授予托尼·冯·卡拉瑟斯临时缓期执行死刑一年，”李在一份声明中说道。
废除死刑组织“缓刑”（Reprieve）的数据显示，卡拉瑟斯是美国至少第七位在死刑注射执行失败后幸存的死刑犯。
“死刑注射被标榜为一种人道的‘医疗性’处决方式。类似此次血腥且耗时漫长的处决尝试，揭露了其令人毛骨悚然的真实面目，”该组织美国副主任马特·威尔斯在一份声明中说道。
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Tennessee aborts execution attempt after struggling to find vein
2026-05-21 19:51:34 UTC / Reuters
By Jonathan Allen
May 21, 2026 7:51 PM UTC Updated 2 mins ago
May 21 (Reuters) – Tennessee prison officials aborted their attempt to execute a man convicted of murders on Thursday after failing to find a suitable vein for a lethal injection.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee later granted a one-year reprieve from execution to Tony Carruthers, 57, who was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994.
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After Carruthers was taken to the execution chamber at a maximum-security prison in Nashville, prison officials spent more than an hour trying to establish an intravenous line before calling off the execution and returning him to his cell, according to an Associated Press reporter present as a media witness.
Prison officials were able to set up a primary intravenous line, the Tennessee Department of Correction said in a statement, but struggled to establish a “backup line” required by the state’s lethal injection protocol.
“I am granting Tony Von Carruthers a temporary reprieve from execution for one year,” Lee said in a statement.
Carruthers becomes at least the seventh man to survive his execution date in the U.S. after a botched lethal injection attempt, according to the abolitionist group Reprieve.
“Lethal injection is touted as a humane, ‘medical’ method of execution. Bloody and prolonged execution attempts like this one expose the gruesome reality,” Matt Wells, Reprieve’s U.S. deputy director, said in a statement.
Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York Editing by Bill Berkrot
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