Tennessee set to execute man despite botched attempt on another prisoner
Darrell Hines’s lawyers ask supreme court to intervene, arguing he could face fate similar to failed execution in May Tennessee is scheduled to execute a man this week despite bipartisan backlash after the state botched its previous lethal injection, which dragged on for more than an hour before it was canceled. Darrell Hines, who was convicted of the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins, a motel maid and mother of four, is due to be put to death on Thursday. Hines’s lawyers have asked the US supreme court to intervene, arguing that he could face a fate similar to Tony Carruthers , who endured a prolonged, failed execution in May. Hines is one of three people slated to be executed on Thursday across the US as a handful of states continue to aggressively pursue capital punishment. Hines has maintained his innocence.
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Hines is 66 years old, very thin, has suffered significant muscular atrophy after recent strokes and has stiffness in his arm that causes his hand to remain clenched in a fist – all factors that would make it challenging to establish an IV line, according to medical declarations filed by his lawyers.
