Tennessee Republican senators are calling on the state to launch a formal investigation into the botched execution attempt of Tony Carruthers in May. Several legal battles are also challenging Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol.
Catherine Sweeney
Catherine Sweeney is WPLN’s health reporter. Before joining the station, she covered health for Oklahoma’s NPR member stations. That was her first job in public radio. Until then, she wrote about state and local government for newspapers in Oklahoma and Colorado. In her free time, she likes to cycle through hobbies, which include crochet, embroidery, baking, cooking and weightlifting.
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