Tony Von Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 21.
Executioners spent more than an hour trying to place an IV line into his bo...
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Tony Von Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 21.
Executioners spent more than an hour trying to place an IV line into his bo...
The sprawling Greenbrook at Shelby Farms apartment complex is home to
The top tier of Lauren Ashe Cuautle and Bryan Cuautle Romero’s wedding cake is still in the freezer, in a plastic container, tucked behind other food.
The Memphis couple celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary April 9, but they weren’t able to be together for it: Bryan has been detained at the West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason since Nov. 21, 2025, c...
The horrors of the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers have stayed with me. Our public safety reporter, Brittany Brown, was there and will publish more about her experiences soon. But I also asked
When I was 15, I spent nine months in juvenile detention. Every day looked the same: I woke up at 6 a.m., brushed my teeth and hair, left my cell to eat breakfast, spent a few hours on the phone and watching TV, ate lunch and dinner, and went back t...