💬 Opinion 4d ago · Liliana Segura

False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Wants to Kill Him Anyway.

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False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Wants to Kill Him Anyway.
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Earley Story will never forget the name Alfredo Shaw.



As a longtime employee at the Shelby County Jail in downtown Memphis, Story had seen the young man come in and out of the detention facility known as 201 Poplar since the 1980s. Shaw acted cocky, but there was fear in his eyes. Story, a devout Christian, occasionally had conversations with him about God.



In 1994, Shaw became a witness in a grisly triple homicide. A local drug dealer, along with his mother and a teenage friend, had been

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