Doctor in failed Tennessee execution says he didn’t want prisoner to suffer

Dr. Mark Walton Fowler played a key role in the failed lethal injection of Tony Carruthers in a Tennessee prison before it was called off after 90 minutes.

Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant in the death chamber, but witnesses say he played a direct role in botching the execution.

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