{"id":6026,"date":"2026-08-14T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:36:25","slug":"outright-barbaric-red-states-upcoming-grotesque-spectacle-has-attorney-up-in-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"‘Outright barbaric’: Red state’s upcoming ‘grotesque spectacle’ has attorney up in arms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lawyer for Anthony Darrell Hines, a man who was convicted of the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, said the state\u2019s Republican governor will force a \u201cgrotesque spectacle\u201d to move forward on Thursday by refusing to stop Hines\u2019 planned execution despite a botched lethal injection involving another death row inmate in May.<\/p>\n

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The lawyer, Kit Thomas, noted that Hines, 66, has experienced muscular atrophy after several recent strokes, has been in a wheelchair or confined to his bed for eight months, and has stiffness in his arm that forces his hand to remain clenched in a fist\u2014medical issues that could make it challenging for physicians and staffers to establish an IV line to administer lethal drugs.<\/p>\n

Hines\u2019 medical condition particularly raises alarm considering the Tennessee Department of Correction\u2019s attempt to execute Tony Carruthers earlier this year in an ordeal that continued for an hour and 15 minutes before a warden intervened.<\/p>\n

An IV team and a physician, later publicly identified as Dr. Mark Fowler, attempted to locate veins in Carruthers\u2019 arms, legs, feet, shoulder, hands, and finally his neck, causing what one witness called a \u201cbloody mess\u201d as the inmate remained strapped to a gurney, groaning in pain.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Carruthers described the scene as \u201coutright barbaric.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas has asked the US Supreme Court to intervene to stop Hines\u2019 lethal injection.<\/p>\n

Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve to Carruthers, and Fowler was deposed by attorneys\u2014a process during which he admitted he had not placed an IV line since 2013.<\/p>\n

Thomas said the Department of Correction had violated its own protocol by appointing an unqualified doctor to carry out Carruthers\u2019 execution, and Hines\u2019 legal team expressed concern that the state has not disclosed whether Fowler will be involved in the inmate\u2019s planned lethal injection.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Tennessee Supreme Court rejected Hines\u2019 request to force the state to confirm whether Fowler will be administering the drugs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s particularly horrifying to think of them lifting a partially paralyzed man from his hospital bed, which he\u2019s lived in for the last eight months, then strapping him to a gurney, while executioners attempt to establish IV access,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n

The advocacy group Death Penalty Action delivered a petition to Lee\u2019s office last week calling on him to halt Hines\u2019 execution.<\/p>\n