The video documents the botched execution attempt of Tony Kurthers in Tennessee, where medical personnel failed to find a suitable backup IV vein as required by lethal injection protocol, resulting in a 365-day stay. The case reveals significant legal controversies including the concealment of confidential informant Alfredo Shaw's paid status for 30 years, the failure to test DNA evidence and fingerprints that could potentially exonerate Kurthers, and the denial of proper legal representation during his 1996 trial. These systemic issues highlight how capital cases can involve multiple procedural failures that challenge the fairness and reliability of the death penalty system.
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Boy, boy, boy. Be ye not deceived. God is not mocked, man. Hey, you know, I'm looking at this whole situation from a bird's eye view, but um somebody don't want Tony Kathers off this earth yet.
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We got a Nissa in the building. We got key up in here, man. What's up with it, hom? You know what I'm saying? We got Yam in the building. Yeah, man. Yeah, we live, family.
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Go on, hit that like button. Man, we got a we got a few things to get into, not just Tony Carells, man, but um this whole situation with Tony Carells, you know, um I've always heard Tony Carell's uh name from afar, you feel me? And now it is to the point where, you know, this thing is about to go national, feel me?
Slute to you. Yeah, man. Y'all hit that like button. Salute to everybody in the building, man. This is about to go national because people have raised awareness for Tony Brothers. Um it don't look like the evidence was there for them to even take this situation this far and they filed a motion for a state of execution and it was denied this morning. Um the governor denied it and said to go ahead and um they proceeded with the execution and for some strange reason they could not find a vein to inject Tony Kurthers. And um once they did find one, the status quo is to find a second one as well, a backup bag of sorts. And it just it was not in the cards, fam. It was not in the cards. And basically what we have here is Tony Carell's being granted an extra 365 days on this earth because state of Tennessee basically botched the execution.
Man, I have never seen nothing like this, fam. I ain't never seen nothing like this. I know. I've heard that in 2019, the um medication that they were giving to inmates to um basically cease their existence was pulled from the state of Tennessee because they didn't want uh Tennessee using their product to kill inmates. and they said ever since then that's been an issue. But um we going to get into it, man. Salute to everybody in the building. Hope everybody doing well.
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Oh, man. That's crazy, fam. That's crazy. From what I'm seeing, this is a this is a wild story, man. And um the powers that be legit need to be shamed of yourself for not even, you know, looking and they left so many stones unturned that probably could have exonerated this guy. But fam, we finn to get into it, man. Y'all lock in.
>> Just gotten confirmation that this execution has been halted. Ezekiel, uh thanks for joining us again. uh give us the very latest of what you're hearing, what you're what you've been able to to find out.
>> I'm not going to sugarcoat it. This is botched. This is ridiculous in regard to what took place today at the n at the state capital in Nashville today. Again, Tony Kerala, he was scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. And after multiple attempts via IV, when it comes to lethal injection, again, they had to halt this execution. and he did again request for an emergency stay in order to prevent this execution and it was denied. So we know that they continue to try to again execute this man. But again, it's botched. I'm going just say it how it is. It was botched and uh it's it's unfortunate in terms of uh what took place in Nashville today. I know that when it comes to uh again people and in terms of how they feel back at home, there's mixed feelings. We've talked to the ACLU who was trying to prevent uh this from even taking place today. A lot of other groups advocating for this not to take place. Again, there was three uh separate applications denied by the Supreme Court today to uh you know allow for this execution to continue. So, the state did everything that they could from a federal level. Uh the Supreme Court did everything that they could to not intervene with this execution. And what happened today? It was barged. Uh clearly they attempted multiple times to follow through or to go through with this execution and they failed. Point simple. There's no way to sugarcoat or to say it in a again a nice way. It was a botched attempt and we're not sure as to when or even if he's going to be tried via lethal injection again. But we know that they were trying for multiple hours again. This was supposed to start at 10:00 a.m. in Nashville and we're it's it's 10:04 right now. So >> fam, let me tell you something. True.
What it do? Salute to your family. You know what I'm saying? I hope all is well in your neck of the woods, man. If you want to come up, you're more than welcome to, man. Um, a couple of months ago, I was in the hospital and I had a rookie flabboamist that was trying to um, find a vein to give me some saline. And um man, this girl, she basically put a IV in my thumb, swole my thumb up like a chicken leg. You hear me?
Yeah. So, just imagine them working on this man for hours trying to find a vein to take his life. Man, this is like like out there said, cruel and unusual punishment, man. Yeah. So, you know, we just got confirmation not too long ago then that this execution was halted. And we know that again the government more specifically did everything that they could for this specifically to not fall through. They wanted for him to be executed today.
They rejected the files within court in terms of the applications from the Supreme Court level. Governor Bill Lee told you on Tuesday that he was not going to intervene on this and now all of a sudden we got the news that it was halted. So, I'm going to say it how it is. It was barged. But reporting live in Memphis, I'm Ezekiel Tamanco, ABC24 News.
>> All right, thank you, Ezekiel. Um, definitely a a botched execution attempt. I could there's no way that this is what the state had planned for this morning for sure. I mean, this has definitely gone sideways to say the least. Again, thank you, Ezekiel Tamakco, for joining us and continuing to update us as we get more information.
Now, you and I were just looking at a statement uh from an ACLU lawyer, an attorney from the ACLU. Uh, let me read the statement again. This these things are coming in literally in the minute and so we're trying to relay this information and make sure it's accurate, right? Which is important.
>> It's happening live.
>> Yeah. But it >> Yeah. This is a black eye for the state.
Damn the city. This a black eye for the state. Um, as long as I've been um informed about executions and how they take place. I don't think I've ever seen one like this. um working on this man for hours and there was a live stream set up and I'm not sure where it was set up. It may have been somewhere in Nashville, but it was a thousand people in the chat and I think it was um hosted by the Tennesseeian and they just basically kept coming back saying it was comp it was uh complications with the um it was complications with the execution and then they finally, you know, we finally get word that they they stopped. You know, it's crazy.
Yeah, man. That that that's the state right there.
I don't know who's big enough in the in the in the world that we live in today to um shine light on this and basically give Tennessee a shame on you because ain't no shame in the world right now as it relates to people in high places. You know, I'm just leave that at that. Uh I'mma tap back in, fam. I'm on the phone with the ACLU reps. Divine and Adventure. Let's go, man. Let's go.
Shout out to True Results, man. Y'all know him. Y if y'all ain't sub, go sub to True Results, man. Real talk. Little Vegas, what's going on, man? Y'all hit that like button. It >> is happening live. So, uh the statement u that we're getting is that the uh the ACLU lawyer attorney is clarifying the governor's call to halt the execution by saying a temporary pause is our current understanding, but we do not know for how long. So, what that means, in case you don't deal with a lot of attorneys and you're not into the legal jargon very much, is that it has been temporarily paused, >> but not a stay and not clemency. So, those are two different those are all three different versions of what could be happening here, what could have potentially happened. The governor could have come in and granted clemency saying he's not going to be executed. a stay could have been granted saying we're going to stop and take a look at this case or this temporary pause which is saying hey we just need to stop for a second and figure out what we're going to do next. Well, I I guess the question is if you're going to decide, okay, we're still going to uh execute Tony Kurthers.
If the first person said we couldn't find uh the second vein, >> veins don't change tomorrow.
>> No. So, what are they going to do? Are they going to decide that the first person was incompetent? Then the question is, why did you have someone who was incompetent? Yes.
>> And the second is hopefully this second person can do it. I mean, it's absurd and >> and the roller coaster that doesn't just cause that doesn't just and there's the statement on our screen right now um from uh the ACLU that a temporary pause is our current understanding. We do not we don't know for how long. This doesn't just impact the uh the reputation of the state, right, and the governor. This has direct human impact >> on Tony Kurthers and on the victim's family. Yes, those there are two sides of this as well. So obviously Tony Kurthers claiming his innocence, saying he shouldn't be executed because he didn't do it. We don't know that or not, but that's his claim. And so he now has to wait and see what's going to happen next. And then the victim's family does too, >> right? Well, a lot no a lot of people do not uh think about the inmate who's condemned, but if you think about it, it's like, okay, this is the day I'm going to be executed >> and then it doesn't turn out to be that way. And and uh >> Tony Kurthers does have a family, too.
The family of the victims, of course, >> this is a nightmare for them as well. I don't know if they are there to witness it. They they certainly have the right to be and they have a room to put them in to do that, but for them it's a nightmare, too. It's like a nightmare that won't end.
>> And I I get that, but I feel like it's the victim's families um how can I say this? is the victim's famil family's u responsibility to apply pressure to the state to make sure that they for one um are doing their job and presenting evidence that proves that Tony Kellas actually committed this crime and it doesn't seem that that's the case.
You know, you got one of his codefendants that actually walked back in, I want to say 200 15. I may be mistaken, but you know, there's a lot of information that has been presented and just the state looked the other way. A lot of stuff that wasn't admitted, you know.
Um, that was a a CI, confidential informant that put Tony Kurellas on the scene because he said Tony Carellas confessed to him about doing this, but then he came back and recanted on um, Memphis television on Fox 13 that he was paid off by law enforcement for that statement.
and he was trying to run this back.
They would not let him mention this in court. They made him go with his original statement in court. So, it's it's a lot of corrupt stuff going on in this trial. A lot of stuff that's not clean. And you know, when you don't present all the evidence for the jury to uh do their proper research on, you can't come back with nothing but a guilty verdict. You know, I understand you got three dead bodies.
Somebody got to pay for that, but it all goes back to lazy police work. We've seen it before.
We've seen it before. Yeah. You got somebody in custody. Why let them go and go have to go back out here and start from scratch, you know? Yeah. Let's just get him out the way. this poor black guy from I believe North Memphis. Amen.
This is sad. A lot of people said this and said that, but some people live through this horrific ordeal. And man, listen. Where's the guy? Um Marcelo, uh the other guy Frederick and Marcelo's um mother, Dois. And God rest their souls, man.
But um it looks like the person that actually did this might not even be in custody, fam. Yeah, that's crazy. Ken Adams, salute to you, home.
>> Uh so this is I mean, you can think of all kinds of questions to ask that we don't know the answers to, but what does the state to do? And I suspect the state has never had to deal with this before.
Well, I think the state's probably going to have to hold a press conference at some point in time and answer some tough questions and give some direction on what's going to happen next because there are too many sides that need to know. Again, the victim's family needs to know what's going to happen next.
>> Yes, they do.
>> The the state needs to have a plan on what's going to happen next. Tony Kurthers needs to know what what's going to happen next. and Tony Kurther's family needs to know what happens next because uh there are so many people impacted when something like this happens >> uh that you can't just >> which is a a good good point because if you think about all of the parts that have to come together all of the people who showed up uh for this for for different reasons >> and this this was the state's production and they botched it >> they botched it and I I I am hesitant to um I don't know if that's the right word. I I'm curious. Let's say I'm curious to see how long it takes for the state to now respond with some official word on what's going to happen.
>> Well, and and here's the deal. There will be outrage >> when people when they just say, "Okay, we're either going to do it in an hour or we're going to do it tomorrow or whatever." But there will be an outrage that you you could not pull this execution off. So you're going to try it another time. There will be people across the US who are going to be outraged by that. It's like you get one chance.
>> Yeah.
>> You are supposed to be able to do it.
>> They need to they need to issue a statement to the public this evening.
You know what I'm saying? That that little um that little text message from the ACL. You ain't enough. You know, this need to come as from as high as Bill Lee, the governor of the state of Tennessee. Somebody need to say something ASAP. This crazy, y'all.
Salute the graffiti university comics, man. And salute the Pretty Face. I see you in the building, man. What's going on with it, Tequila? Salute to y'all, man. Glad y'all was able to make it in today.
>> And and again, you know, nowhere in the law is it written that you just get one chance. No. Right. And so I guess there there does become that that that point where they they have the option or opportunity to continue to try to carry out the sentence.
>> They they absolutely can do that, but I wouldn't want to be in the governor's shoes right now.
>> He's going to have a lot of questions to answer. And >> damn right he gonna have a lot of questions.
>> All right. Thank you.
>> Hold on one second, child. Can we Let's see here.
Hold on one second. Yeah, the folk got a herd of question to answer behind this.
Let's see.
As another clip that I want to show as well.
I think this is it.
Yeah. Yeah, this is it. Mac, what's up with salute to you? Yeah, man. This is crazy, bro.
We have just gotten official word that the execution has been called off.
>> Okay, which we assumed was going to happen today based on the series of events. Let me read to you uh what we're the what the official word is. So just bear with me as I read this. It's not in the teleprompter, so I'm not going to be reading from the teleprompter. Uh medical personnel quickly established a primary IV line. However, the team was unable to immediately establish a backup line pursuant to the lethal injection.
execution protocol. So, they had the main line in, but they were supposed to have a secondary line in as well. The team continued to follow the protocol, but could not find another suitable vein. The team uh attempted to insert a central line pursuant to the protocol, but the procedure was unsuccessful. The execution was then called off. So everything that So it sounds like the governor I don't know we we were we we were hearing words that it higher areas had called it or halted it.
>> You have to assume that he was involved.
>> We just don't have any confirmation on what his role is at this point. Based on the paperwork that we're reading, it says that it it makes it sound like it was called off because of the botched attempt, right? Uh at insertion of >> Well, I mean, it does sound strange to talk about the PR of a state execution.
Yes. But that's what is involved here.
Yeah. This is >> this is something that they're going the state's going to have to answer for.
>> And it's uh they're going to have to answer for for several groups. Groups like the ACLU who were very adamant about not having this execution. There are several anti-death penalty groups out there and that this is going to be this is going to be exactly what they're they're going to pinpoint this exact situation as a reason why this shouldn't happen.
>> V said the people administering the drugs are not health care professionals.
That's a damn shame. I know it's a it's a you know who wants to who wants to have that on their conscience you know but damn if you going to do something this serious on this high of a scale that should be somebody with I'm assuming these folk got a healthc care background this this is crazy fam this is crazy for sure for sure I see you pretty face uh it was a time they were having problems with getting the drugs. Yes, we we spoke on that because the uh company that was providing the drugs no longer wanted their name associated with um the death penalty. They didn't want Tennessee using their drugs to um cease people's existence, man. And hell, I don't blame him. No, it's just the whole thing about, you know, playing God, you know. Uh, none of us are without sin or without, you know what I'm saying, some type of bones in our closet. Who are we to tell a man he got to die? you know, um especially when you don't have all of the evidence and you you intentionally leave evidence out because you want a conviction. You want a conviction. You don't want to do the police work. Boy, this is come, this is becoming a narrative in Memphis, you know, lazy prosecution.
They don't want to do the work. So hell, I just put it on him. It's convenient.
This is sad. Yo.
>> Yeah, there is a push uh from these groups and from just regular citizens to get rid of the death penalty. Uh and again, all of the states do not have the death penalty. Most of them are in the south.
Actually, >> you heard what she said. Most states don't even have the death penalty. is almost exclusive to the South. Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, your traditional states, your OG states that would throw a picnic in a city courtyard or a city park, invite people out to watch the hangings.
You know, you have to look at it as such because there's a really strong correlation between policing and slave catching.
And in the I want to say the 13th or the 14th, correct me if I'm wrong, it says that all men are free except for those convicted of a crime. Those are no more than slaves. They call them inmates. They call them criminals. But that is a masking for the word slave. We have just seen on last week Sean Gayight being proed and prodded by the state of Florida saying that we can get good sweat equity from this young man. our pro our um prison population is growing old and young men like this we can get and don't forget Arkansas and the SIP.
Absolutely. We can absolutely get good sweat equity out of this book.
Yeah, man. Yeah, it's something more sinister. You know, my stance on the death penalty wasn't as strong as it is now until I start looking into things and, you know, you check the history of things and you understand that, yeah, this is for more than just, you know what I'm saying, punishing criminals. This is this is a family tradition, not my family, if you know what I'm talking about, >> where the death penalty is uh still uh there. And uh this this could be more fodder because you don't get rid of the in inmate if they don't get death. They still stay behind bars.
>> Yeah. So, and we're going to check back in with Ezekiel Tamco here in just a second, but I do want to get your take on this because again, you're you've covered these types of cases for so long. Have you ever ever experienced anything like this?
>> It almost makes you speechless. I would never ever have predicted this would happen ever. Uh I it's it's actually inexcusable.
>> Uh and it it should never ever have happened and and it's people go to the doctor and they >> put needles in your veins.
>> Yes.
>> People know what that that can happen.
Yes. We've got a lot lot a lot of places you can do it. And so you're like, "How did this happen? How could they not pull this off?" And again, it's a secret, but and we won't know, but who couldn't pull this off? Yes. And then at some point what happens next >> for Tony?
>> Yeah. So, um Keith said South Carolina got the firing squad. And it's funny that you say that because I was in that chat um from the Tennessee and and pe some people were excited and some people were uh discouraged that they weren't able to end this man's life on schedule.
And um one guy said in my state we have the firing squad.
You know firing squads overcome. He said bullets overcome complications.
You know he said that in response to the fact that the Tennessian said that they were having complications in executing Tony Cars. He said bullets overcome complications. Some of these people, and they get it honest, they are devils.
Uh they are bloodthirsty.
And um it's sad. It's sad. But we get propagated and you know, the narrative is painting that we are the most deadly people on this earth. We are the most sturdy people on this earth, the strongest people on this earth, um the most loving people on this earth.
You know, those in the powers that be feel that if we had the power that they have that we would give it right back to them what they've given us for the last 400 plus years. But we ain't cut like that. We not vengeful like that.
That [ __ ] is crazy, man. Yeah, that [ __ ] is crazy. And they said, "Well, just look at look at the statistics. Look at you know what's going on in the streets. This what goes on in the streets is a direct result of people being cramped up in tight spaces, not being able to flourish, not being able to um figure out what they want to be in life and study something because it's a light bill due the rent do. Um you see what I'm saying?
It's hard to figure out what career path you want to explore when the rent man breathing down your neck or they threaten to cut your power off and it's 90° outside or it's 30° outside.
You know, these are adverse circumstances that uh numerous of the people with melanin in his skin have to face.
And I know it sound like I'm on some pan-African type stuff, but I'm just telling you what it is, man. I'm just telling you what it is. We are the most loving, the most strong people on this planet.
That's why we can bring people without melanin in their skin to the cookout.
They would never do the opposite.
He'd been locked up like 30 years. If he had have taken a 25-y year plea deal, he would have been out. Bet he regretting that turn down. Yeah. But when you believe that you um innocent, Dub JJ, that's what it is, man. you know, you feel like that you can prove or the people around you can prove um that you're innocent. And that just wasn't the case. A lot of things were stricken from the courtroom. You know, God exposing the corruption in Memphis to the highest. They ass live flipper, too. Absolutely. It's always long live flipper. Yes, indeed.
We ready for level three, ain't it true?
Let's go.
>> What happens next? This this is something that uh I would never ever have envisioned. And this story it will not end here. And I predict it will be a national story.
>> And well, if anybody would know, it would be you because you've covered plenty of national stories.
>> Explains Let's give him some antibiotics and get him back to his cell.
Jesus Christ.
Like, how can you how can one get the toothpaste back into the tube, fam?
That's what I don't understand what I'm saying.
I wrote a research paper about it in undergrad. They need to completely dismantle it. Yeah. Facts. Facts. This is crazy as hell, man. This whole situation. And people want to hold people don't want to search their heart on certain issues.
uh they rather remain tough on crime because they know remaining tough on crime is what um generates votes, you know.
That's that's all that this is about.
That's all that this is about, fam.
Generating votes, man.
And it's a damn shame.
Boy, boy, boy. Hold on a second, John.
Yeah, we can't we can't put nothing on film that that that say we are sympathetic to anybody that might be a criminal. Yeah.
>> Fate of a man scheduled to be executed in Tennessee next week is now in the hands of Governor Bill Lee. Tony Kurthers's legal team shared information about a clemency petition delivered to the governor. Kurthers was sentenced to death for the 1994 murders of a drug dealer, his mother, and a teenage friend in Memphis. The clemency petition questions the testimony offered at Kurthers's trial and claims there is no physical evidence linking Kurthers to the murders. His execution is set for May 21st at Riverbend Prison in Nashville. The governor has not issued a statement about the clemency petitions.
>> The time is always right. Do what is right. Governor Lee, moral action should never be delayed and 32 years is way too long.
>> Two weeks before the scheduled execution, there are calls for Governor Bill Lee to allow testing of unidentified fingerprint evidence that some believe could prove Kurther's innocent.
>> I'm not going to be executed. I'm smiling. I'm happy because I'm going to be exonerated. Those are the words of a man sitting on death row.
Hey, that [ __ ] hit that [ __ ] hit different after what we didn't just seen in the last hour. I'm not even gonna hold you. That hit different. That man said he not he say he's smiling. He happy because he not going to be executed. He going to be exonerated.
He go all the way to the gurnie.
Just imagine going all the way to that journey, laying on that table in a room full of foreigners with people watching through a window, everybody anticipating your death.
And it does not happen. It does not happen.
Boy, that that's that hit different, fam.
Boy, people love to play God, especially in this country. But um we know who got the final say so. And these people better work like hell to figure out this man role in this situation in the next 365 days.
>> Man scheduled for execution in 6 days. A man the state of Tennessee has never connected to the crime through a single piece of physical evidence. and a man whose fake could be clarified by one DNA test. A test the state has refused to run for 30 years. His story starts right now. If you are watching this and you already have questions, drop a comment right now and tell me where you are watching from.
>> Because the people closest to this case have been waiting 30 years for someone to ask the right questions. The least we can do is show up.
>> Tony von Kurthers was not a stranger to the Tennessee criminal justice system.
before 199.
>> You know what? I don't know. Uh, Tequila, I'm have to look it up myself.
I'm not sure.
But the fact that you even asked is is dope. I appreciate it.
>> 94. He had already served time for aggravated arson, aggravated assault and battery, and armed robbery. That record is not a footnote. It is the foundation the prosecution would later build its entire case on. In the summer of 1993, while still behind bars, Kurthers wrote two letters to a man named Jimmy Lee Mays Jr., a convicted felon from Memphis. In those letters, he described what he called a master plan. One he said was a winner. He wrote that he intended to make those streets pay him.
And then he wrote something that would later be read aloud in a courtroom.
Everything I do from now on will be well organized and extremely violent. Those letters were entered into evidence at trial. While awaiting release at Mark Latrell reception center in the fall of 1993, Kurthers was assigned to a work detail at West Tennessee Veteran Cemetery. A fellow inmate later testified that after a burial, Kurthers made a remark that a grave would be a good way to conceal someone you intended to harm. On November 15th, 1993, Tony von Kurthers walked out of prison. His sister Tanya Ivet Miller, a counselor at the Shelby County Adult Offender Center, later testified at sentencing that their mother raised four children alone in one of the most difficult housing projects in Memphis. That Tony, as the oldest son, was the man of the household. That context does not change what came next, but it is part of who he was before any of it began. Marcelos Anderson was 21 years old. on the streets of North Memphis. People who knew him used one name, Cello. He was involved in the drug trade that is documented and not disputed. But court records also paint another side of him. A young man who extended trust to people he considered close, sometimes without question. When Tony von Kurthers was released from prison on November 15th, 1993, it was Marcelos's Anderson who showed up to collect him. He drove Kurthers to a friend's house and together with two other men from their north Memphis circle, Andre Johnson and Terrell Adair Anderson handed Kurthers $200 in cash as a welcome home gesture.
>> Little Vegas. So you you feel like that Tony Kurthers is guilty. All I'm asking all I'm asking the the state is to prove it.
That's all these little letters and stuff that's that's circumstantial.
You know, we a lot of us say a lot of crazy [ __ ] man. What's going on, Neo?
Yeah, man. ZK, I see you. What's happening?
>> That detail is in the trial record.
Andre Johnson, known in the neighborhood as baby brother, was Anderson's partner in the drug trade. He would later take the stand as a witness at trial. Terrell Adair moved in the same circle. Deoys Anderson was 43 years old. Marcelos's mother. She had no part in her son's street life. None. She would be taken from her own home. Frederick Tucker was 17, a teenager, a friend of Marcelos's with no known involvement in anything criminal. Three people, three completely different connections to what was about to happen. By December 199, >> I think we got our wives cross little Vegas cuz I don't I don't believe in it either, homie in it either. You know what I'm saying?
My whole thing is I I I um my heart goes out to these three people on the screen.
You know what I'm saying?
But don't just, you know, throw anybody back there behind the wall because, you know what I'm saying? And it and and and when you do stuff like that, it shows a callousness uh on the behalf of law enforcement and the state. You know, long as we do our job and we get one, then it's all good.
They don't It ain't even got to be the right one. You know what I'm saying? As long as we get one. We just seen a trial where they had three and they got two.
Knowing that that wasn't justice, but hey, we got two. That [ __ ] crazy.
>> Three. The pieces were already moving. A fellow inmate named Smith, who had served time alongside both Tony von Kurthers and James Montgomery, was released from prison that month. One of the first things he did was find Marcelos's Anderson and Andre Johnson.
He told them directly that Kurthers and Montgomery were planning to rob them.
Anderson did not take the warning seriously. That decision would define everything that followed. Mid December 1993, Jimmy Lee Mays Jr. was riding through Memphis with Kurthers and his brother when they came across the scene of a driveby shooting outside Deoy Anderson's home. Terrell Adair had been hit and was taken to the hospital. Jonathan Montgomery, known as Lulu James's younger brother, was also at the scene.
According to Ma's later testimony at trial, Kurthers turned to Jonathan Montgomery and said, "It would be the best time to kidnap Marcelos." Jonathan responded, "Which one, baby brother or Marcelos?" Kurthers said it would happen after James got out. On December 31st, May saw Kurthers loading three antifreeze containers into a car.
Kurthers told him they were filled with gasoline. January 11th, 1994.
James Montgomery was released from prison. He located Andre Johnson and made his position clear. He told Johnson the neighborhood belonged to him. When Johnson refused to respond, Montgomery said, "You need to get in line around here or we're going to war." through late January and into early February.
Witnesses would later place Kurthers and James Montgomery together near the neighborhood on multiple occasions. They were not passing through. February 24th, 1994 is the day everything changed.
Witnesses placed Marcelos's Anderson and Frederick Tucker traveling in a Jeep Cherokee alongside James and Jonathan Montgomery during the day. That evening around 5:00 p.m. the four men arrive at the North Memphis home of Nikita Shaw, the Montgomery brother's cousin. Also present that evening are Benton West, another cousin, and Shaw's four young children. All four men go downstairs into the basement. A short time later, James Montgomery comes back up alone. He approaches Nikita Shaw and asks her to leave the house for a while. He tells her he has business to handle. Shaw later told investigators she felt something was wrong. She left. Benton West stayed behind to look after her children. Deoys Anderson is not at that house. According to the state's theory, she is taken separately directly from her own home. Two details support this.
She left without her purse and when her niece called the house that evening, someone answered the phone. The state concluded someone was inside the property after she was removed. The following morning, February 25th, at around 8:30 a.m., a man named Hines gets his car back. It is described as very muddy. He drives James Montgomery and Kurthers to Montgomery's mother's home.
Later that same morning, Jonathan Montgomery, described by Hines as visibly on edge and unable to settle, makes a statement Hines would never forget. Jonathan tells him directly they had to take care of some people. That same morning, Deoyy's Anderson's niece realizes neither her aunt nor Marcelos has returned home. She contacts authorities and files a missing person report. 7 days of silence follow. For 7 days, there was nothing, no calls, no sightings, no word from anyone. Then on March 3rd, 1994, Jonathan Montgomery led Detective Jack Ruby of the Memphis Police Department to Rose Hill Cemetery on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis.
>> Damn, Jack Ruby is crazy.
Detective Jack Ruby is crazy.
You know, that name is synonymous with John F. Kennedy and James uh not James, but um Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. He did not lead him to an unmarked area. He directed him to a specific grave, the burial site of a woman named Dorothy Daniels, who had been interred there on February 25th, 1994.
One day after Marcelos's Anderson, Deoys Anderson, and Frederick Tucker were last seen. Her grave sat six plots away from the burial site of the Montgomery brother's cousin. A cemetery employee later testified that a pressed wood box had been placed inside Danielle's grave during working hours on February 24th and that moving it would have required at least two people. A court order was obtained. The grave was opened beneath the casket under several inches of dirt and a single piece of plywood.
Investigators found all three of them.
Deoys Anderson was at the bottom. The two male victims were positioned above her. Medical examiner Dr. OC Smith documented what was present. All three had their hands secured behind their backs with cloth ties. Frederick Tucker's feet were also bound. There was marking on Tucker's neck consistent with a liature. A red sock was knotted around Deoyy's Anderson's neck. Marcelo's Anderson had no jewelry and no cash on his person. Also recovered from within the grave was a cloth with significant staining. Separately, investigators collected fingerprints from doorork knobs and a phone receiver at the home where the state believed the abduction had taken place. Those fingerprints did not match a single person charged in this case. The >> Damn, that's crazy. That's crazy.
>> Jury would never be told that Jonathan Montgomery's cooperation point. So the jury never never heard the fact that the fingerprints from the home during the abduction didn't match James Montgomery or Tony Kurthers. This is this is wild, fam.
>> Pointed investigators directly toward two men, James Montgomery and Tony von Kurthers. Both were arrested. Before his own case could go to trial, Jonathan Montgomery was found unresponsive in his jail cell. His death was ruled a suicide that left two defendants and a prosecution that needed to build its case from the ground up. The foundation of that case rested almost entirely on one man. Alfredo Shaw, registered confidential informant designation number 2282, had contacted Crimestoppers in March 1994 after seeing news coverage of the disappearances. He gave a statement to police and later appeared before a grand jury where he claimed that Tony von Kurthers had personally confessed to him that he planned and directed the entire operation. That grand jury testimony is the primary reason Kurthers was indicted. Both men were formally charged with three counts of firstdegree premeditated murder and four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping.
>> So the only reason they came and got Tony Carellas was off the strength of a confidential informant who later recanted his statement and then brought it back for the court in jury. Man, this [ __ ] so shaky. Y'all hit that like button, man. And if y'all can support the channel, man.
>> The prosecution sought the death penalty for both Then something happened that the jury would never find out about. On February 28th, 1996, before the trial began, Alfredo Shaw sat down for a televised interview with Channel 13 News in Memphis. On camera, he stated that his grand jury testimony was not true.
He said it had been given under pressure and in exchange for payment from law enforcement. Assistant District Attorney Jerry Harris was later named in court filings as the prosecutor who had briefed Shaw on the details of the case before that grand jury appearance. The trial went forward anyway.
So he got paid the lie and he went on Fox 13 and admitted so said he was coerced and prepped by the prosecution. That's so crazy, man. Well, when I tell you this is corruption at its finest, you know, um, and it all it it all goes back to lazy police work. People not want to do what they getting paid to do. Um, salute the divine black rose. I seen you coming in chat, sis. If this kind of case is what you come here for, the details that never make the headlines, the questions that courts don't always answer, subscribe now. New investigations drop regularly, and you do not want to arrive late to the next one. The trial of Tony von Kurthers and James Montgomery opened in April 1996 before Judge Joseph Daly in Shelby County Criminal Court. But the most consequential moment of the entire proceeding had already taken place before a single witness was called. In the months leading up to trial, Kurthers had worked through six courtappointed attorneys. He dismissed some. He accused others of working against him.
Postconviction attorneys would later argue this pattern was not defiance. It was the direct result of documented mental illness that the court consistently misread as deliberate obstruction. In January 1996, Judge Daly ruled that Kurthers had forfeited his right to legal representation. What happened immediately after that ruling is documented in court records. Kurthers offered to take his most recent attorney back. That attorney was prepared to continue. Kurthers offered to apologize and formally withdraw every complaint he had filed. Judge Daly refused. He concluded that Kurthers was attempting to delay the proceedings. 3 days later, the prosecution submitted a request for a 3-month postponement because one of their witnesses was unavailable. Judge Daly granted it. Kurthers formally requested an attorney again. Daly denied it again. Tony von Kurthers went to trial alone. No legal.
>> This is a trap. This is a trap. Anybody in their mama can see that this is a trap. So you going to give you going to give the prosecutors what is it? Two months a month layover in the trial, but you can't give this man um you can't approve him bringing his old lawyer back. You want him to defend himself. It's a slam dunk. It's a slam dunk, man.
>> Boy, I corrupt as hell.
>> Council, no courtroom experience, three counts of murder, four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping. His life on the line. The prosecution called Jimmy Lee Mays Jr. who testified about the letters Kurthers had written from prison and the conversation he witnessed in December 1993. Hines also testified placing the muddy car and the conduct of James and Jonathan Montgomery in the hours following the disappearances. Then came Alfredo Shaw. Kurthers called Shaw as a defense witness. His calculation was straightforward. Shaw had already told a television station his grand jury testimony was false. Kurthers believed putting Shaw on the stand would expose the weakness in the state's case.
Instead, prosecutors informed Shaw that repeating his recantation under oath would result in two counts of aggravated perjury charges. Shaw returned to his original testimony when Kurthers attempted Man.
Oh my god.
So Tony Kurther brought up Alfredo Shaw on the stand, the guy that went on Fox 13 and admitted to the whole city that he lied on Tony Carells for a bag. You know what I'm saying? And was prepped by the state to testify in this case against Tony Carellas. Car brothers went to ask him, you know, put him on the stand and ask him directly, you know, was his statement true. And they threatened this dude with perjury and some more charges. Cypress TV, what's going on, man?
>> Yeah, that's Welcome to Shelby County.
That's how they play. What going on, bro?
>> Can't call it, man. And JR said the fix was in, bro. Hey, absolutely. I mean, you you can't This is crystal clear, man. This is crystal clear. Anybody from outside the state of Tennessee, look at this.
They going to call it exactly what it is.
Corruption.
To ask Shaw directly whether he had been a paid government informant, a question central to his credibility. The prosecution objected. Judge Daly sustained it. The jury never heard the answer. Dr. OC Smith testified regarding his autopsy conclusions. Kurthers did not challenge that testimony. He did not call Dr. Cleveland Blake, a forensic expert who had reviewed the same evidence at the trial court's own request and reached a different conclusion. Blake was available. He was never called. At sentencing, Bishop Richard L. Fiddler, a prison minister who had visited Kurthers for 20 years, testified to his character. Kurthers's sister Tanya Iet Miller testified about their upbringing was not enough. On April 26th, 1996, the jury returned its verdict. Tony von Kurthers was found guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder. He was also convicted on four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping.
>> Man, that's a kangaroo court.
>> Yes, it is. Tequila said that part in his head ain't to be [ __ ] with. Man, listen. That boy look like he could play That [ __ ] look like he could play Lewis Farrakan stunt double in a movie.
Yeah, man.
>> OC OC Smith was another crook downtown at the forensic uh fell where they had them dead people.
>> He's another He's another known crook.
What >> What was he doing in the forensic lab?
Man, he supposedly doing opto, but he got caught up on some crooked [ __ ] >> I gota I gota damn.
>> Each carrying a 40-year sentence. The murder convictions carried the possibility of death. At the sentencing phase, Shelby County prosecutor Bobby Carter stood before the jury and said, "If these murders don't qualify for the death penalty, then none ever will." The jury agreed. Three death sentences were handed down, one for each victim.
Marcelos Anderson, Deoys Anderson, Frederick Tucker. James Montgomery was convicted on all three murder counts at the same proceeding and also sentenced to death. One fact places this verdict in a wider context. Shelby County accounts for nearly half of Tennessee's entire death row population while representing less than 14% of the state's total population. Since 2001, only eight of Tennessee's 95 counties have imposed sustained death sentences.
This case came from one of those eight.
The convictions were handed down in 1996.
But the legal story did not end there.
In 2000, a Tennessee appeals court reviewed the joint trial and reached a significant conclusion. Kurthers' self-representation had directly affected James Montgomery's ability to receive a fair trial. The >> wow joint proceeding was ruled improper.
Montgomery was granted a new trial. That same year, the state approached Tony von Kurthers with an offer, a life sentence in exchange for a guilty plea. He refused. He has maintained his innocence from the day of his arrest. In 2006, James Montgomery accepted an Alfred plea, a legal arrangement where a defendant does not admit guilt, but acknowledges the state has sufficient evidence to convict. His sentence was set at 27 years with credit for time already served. He walked out of prison in 2015. When that release became public, the families of Marcelos's Anderson, Deoys Anderson, and Frederick Tucker came forward. They stated they had received no notification of any proceedings connected to Montgomery's release.
>> They let James Montgomery out the family a damn thing.
>> Welcome to Shelby County. That's what I like to call it.
So, this goes without saying that these folk don't they not looking for no justice.
They're not going for no, you know what I'm saying? They're not um putting their self out on a limb for nobody.
And from what it's looking like, the folk had a heart on for Tonica Brothers.
How in the hell you let this man walk in 2015, man? Let him issue a Alfred P. And it looked like they they they they accepted um Tony Carella's not wanting to uh take a deal as a slap in the face and basically wanted to crucify him for not doing so.
>> The county prosecutor responded that notification was not his responsibility.
The state noted the families had not enrolled in the victim notification system. No one had informed them that enrollment was required. Tony von Kurthers remained on death row. In 2010 and 2011, James Montgomery gave sworn statements to members of Kurthers's federal defense team. In those statements, Montgomery said that Kurthers had no involvement in the kidnapping or the crimes. He stated that he planned and carried out the operation himself and that he directed a man known as Ronnie Eyeball Irving to take Deoys Anderson separately from her home. In 2005, forensic expert Dr. Cleveland Blake testified at a postconviction hearing. His professional conclusion was that the three victims were already deceased before they were placed in that grave. Following that testimony, Dr. OC Smith, the original medical examiner, walked back his earlier conclusion. Two members of the original jury subsequently signed sworn declaration stating that had they known the victims were not alive when placed in the grave, they would not have voted for the death penalty. In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reviewed the case and upheld the conviction. But the three judge panel included a pointed observation in its written opinion. Nothing in this opinion is intended to bless the state trial court's actions. On the matter of the forced self-representation, the panel used one word. Troubling.
>> Troubling.
You going to force this man to represent himself.
>> Yep.
>> Don't say it again, bro. Please. You done said it five times.
>> Hey, man. That's that's that's the way.
[ __ ] up.
>> Yeah, man. That's crazy as hell. You know, the the the jury did not know that the jury felt like that these folks was buried alive and that was one of they they hinge one of they that they hinged their decision on that.
This is a dirty game these folk play within man life. Ash, what's going on with your family? Salute to you. I don't I don't get it, fam.
What the hell did they have against Tony von Kurthers? You know, his code even said he ain't had nothing to do with it and they was not listening. Period.
Period. The folks the folks at the highest level of government saying that the way that y'all handled this case and y'all would not let him get proper representation was troubling. And ain't nobody stepped in.
Ain't nobody stepped in until basically an hour and a half ago when these folks tried to physically execute this man on a journey and it did not work.
And it did not work. But the folk got some explaining to do. You hear me? They got some explaining to do, boy.
And I say >> I say this in the world that we live in right now, I I feel like any cries for Tony Carellas may fall on deaf ears, man. But somebody got to speak for this, man.
>> Somebody got to speak for this.
>> All the way out with this. And this is what they trying to avoid.
And that's testing that evidence, fam.
>> Right. Because because they know if they test that evidence, they got to let him go because the dude who confessed to him say he wasn't part of this, he wasn't here. So be all tested physical evidence.
>> Y'all got to let him go and y'all got to pay him.
>> Yeah.
And then you got to listen to the mouth of um the victim's families.
Yeah.
Nobody want to hear them folks whining and sobbing and all that stuff. You know what I'm saying? And they don't they don't want them on Fox 13 um screaming bloody murder injustice, you know. So, let's just let sleeping dogs lie basically. K this. What's going on, man? Salute to you.
>> 30 years of postconviction investigation produced four specific documented evidentiary issues. Each one is factual.
Each one points to the same question.
Why has the state refused to run forensic tests that could resolve this case definitively? The first issue is the fingerprints. Investigators recovered fingerprints from Deoyy's Anderson's home, from doorork knobs and a phone receiver, exactly where anyone involved in the abduction would have made contact. Six separate profiles were developed. Not one matched Tony von Kurthers, James Montgomery, or any other person charged in this case.
>> No fingerprint matches.
What my boy said, carry on. Hey, Memphis Mayhem, salute to you. Good to see you in the chat, man. Much love.
>> The jury was never told. ACLU interim legal director Lucas Cameron Vaughn addressed this directly. None of those fingerprints match Tony. To this day, they remain unidentified.
The second issue is the DNA. A white blanket recovered from the grave was tested and produced an unknown male DNA profile. The bindings on Marcelo's Anderson and Deoys Anderson have never been tested. Fingernail scrapings from all three victims remain in the custody of the Shelby County Medical Examiner, untested. DNA expert Alan Keel, who has worked on cases across 36 states, reviewed the available evidence and confirmed in a 2026 affidavit that the material is still viable for analysis.
>> This is insane.
This is Oh my goodness. ZK, you said it before I could. This is insane, bro.
They got a treasure trove of evidence.
And they just like, "Nope. Nope. Nope.
Nah. We ain't going for it.
We are not going for it. No sir, man.
Ash, salute to you, family, man. Thank you so much, man. Appreciate the love, man. appreciate the donation for real. But these folks got everything that they need and they just don't want to touch it. Period.
This is insane, bro.
I ain't never seen nothing like this.
This is This is um damn what what they call them folks back in the day. Y'all know what I'm talking about. But this [ __ ] is it's bad.
Cypress, this is bad, bro.
>> Yeah, they don't want to test it because they know they got to let him go. They know they wrong.
>> Right. Right.
Hey. Hey, man. Hey, you right about that. Might get them. Might get a gallon of gas. What the folks doing? They blood the folk. Hell. Um. Yeah, man. But this is this is this is evil. This is medieval.
This is some medieval type [ __ ] right here, bro. Like this [ __ ] damn near see it sound personal. You feel me? This [ __ ] damn sound personal. You don't let this man have proper representation. You ain't looking into none of the evidence. The dude that you know is involved, you let go. And even he saying this dude ain't got nothing to do with it.
>> Yeah.
I can't call it. So, >> yeah, kind of kind of crazy to me.
>> Yeah, it is. It is.
The only solace that I get from this is that they tried to kill him and couldn't.
That's the only solace I get from this is they tried to they done did everything to destroy this man possible >> all the way up into inoculating him with a deadly venom and could not do it. Bro, >> ain't God good, >> boy? He's sitting on high and he looking low. He don't like ugly and he ain't crazy about pretty neither. Salute to Stanley Gold fan in the building.
Salute, man. Ronnie Eyeball Irving's DNA profile is on file. No comparison has ever been run. The third issue is the medical testimony. Dr. OC Smith's conclusion that the victims were alive when placed in the grave was cited three times by the Tennessee Supreme Court in its year 2000 proportionality review.
That conclusion was later disputed by Dr. Cleveland Blake, subsequently walked back by Smith himself, and challenged formally by the defense. Two jurors confirmed in writing that this testimony directly shaped their decision on sentencing. The fourth issue is the informant. Alfredo Shaw, confidential informant number 2282, received payment from the Memphis Police Department, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, and federal agencies across multiple cases. He recanted his testimony publicly before trial. At trial, he was pressured back to his original account under the threat of perjury charges. For 30 years, the state maintained no knowledge of his informant status. In August 2024, following the election of a reform-minded district attorney in Shelby County, more than 20 pages of documentation confirming Shaw's designation were disclosed for the first time. Former deputy jailer Bernard Kimmons, prosecuted in part based on Shaw's information, stated, "We're not the only ones he's done this to for issues. 30 years, not one resolved." By early 2026, Kurthers's legal team had opened a second front, one that had nothing to do with the events of 1994.
The question was whether Tony von Kurthers was mentally competent to face execution at all. He has been formally diagnosed with schizopeeffective disorder, bipolar type. Court records also document brain damage. According to his attorneys, he holds fixed beliefs that do not respond to reason or evidence, including the conviction that his judges, prosecutors, and his own defense team are coordinating against him. He reportedly does not believe his execution date is real. He has contacted the Federal Public Defender Office as many as 300 times in a single day. Damn.
>> On February 13th, 2026, his attorneys filed a formal petition to have him declared incompetent. The trial court appointed two mental health professionals, Dr. Bush Nagar and Dr. Thomas Shack, to evaluate him. The hearing ran from March 9th through March 12th. On March 16th, Senior Judge W.
Mark Ward ruled him competent. The governing legal standard comes from Ford versus >> Of course they would. Hey, dude. This [ __ ] w this is wild.
If anything, the folk done drove this man crazy when you try every avenue in in in in in God's creation >> to exact justice and you can't get none.
That should have drive you crazy.
ain't every should let you know everything y'all doing is is wrong.
>> Well, they know that. They know that.
You know, it's just the the fact of them, you know what I'm saying? Getting away with it. And they've been getting away with it for 30 years. You know what I'm saying? And I want to say this, this has been in the back of my mind the whole damn time. Well, you got a tiger over there, boy. [ __ ] Hey.
>> No. No.
Hey, but this been in the back of my mind the whole time. That man got convicted in 1996.
Today, in the year of our Lord, 2026, them courtrooms at 2011 are exactly the same.
What is going on, man? This [ __ ] is crazy. Carpet all on the That carpet got to be from the 80s. It got to be from the 80s.
Yeah, that's that's wild. Doug JJ said OC Smith, the former county corner, wrapped himself in barb wire and I believe a dud bum called the the author. Hold on. And I believe a dud bomb called the authorities.
Really?
Damn.
Psych dropped down. said um the coroner OC Smith wrapped itself in a bar in barb wire with a dud bomb. Ain't no way these people should be dis disbarred. Listen, it's going on, man.
Yes, Lord. It's going on.
His mental health is shattered. I'm telling you, this [ __ ] is crazy. the type of gang they running on this man.
How you gonna tell me that I cannot get proper representation?
Wow, that's crazy. Yet in 2026, some people won't acknowledge the corruption in Memphis in Memphis law system. Yeah, it's everything but fair and balance.
And we see that >> this Way Wright in 1986 and Panetti versus Quarterman in 2007, both holding that a person must rationally understand the connection between their conviction and their punishment before a sentence can be carried out. The Tennessee Supreme Court rejected the appeal. A petition was filed at the United States Supreme Court on May 13th, 2026.
It remains pending. By April 2026, every available legal avenue was being pursued at the same time. On April 9th, the ACLU filed an emergency motion in the Tennessee Supreme Court demanding DNA testing on evidence that had never been analyzed. The court denied it. The ACLU filed immediately in federal court. On April 20th, Lee defense attorney Amy Harwell submitted a formal clemency petition to Governor Bill Lee. The petition documented each issue in full.
The concealed informant, the contested medical testimony, the untested DNA, and the fact that Kurthers had been forced to represent himself without legal counsel in a capital case. On April 28th, a federal civil rights complaint was filed against multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk's Office and the Shelby County District Attorney's Office. On May 4th, a second emergency motion for a stay was filed in federal court alongside a renewed request for DNA testing. Nearly 30,000 people signed the ACLU's public petition. The Tennessee Innocence Project joined the effort. ACLU senior council Maria Deliberado stated, "The state of Tennessee cannot execute a man unless it is absolutely sure that he is guilty." faith leaders, legal advocates, and three people who had previously been sentenced to death before being formally exonerated. Ray Conn of Arizona, Sabrina Butler Smith, and Dom Alatani of Memphis gathered at the Tennessee State Capital and delivered the petition directly to the governor's office. Amnesty International formally declared the planned action a violation of international human rights law. Governor Bill Lee has not granted clemency in a capital case during his time in office.
Federal courts are still considering active motions. The United States Supreme Court petition remains pending.
Cases like this one are why this channel exists to Man, did y'all hear all the things that they brought to the table in Nashville?
They brought three people that that survived death row.
They filed lawsuits.
They had um they justified the treatment of this man inhumane and they brought it all to the feet of the the governor in the governor's office. He is not budging.
They put in a lastm minute motion for a stay this morning.
It was denied.
Amen. God got the final say. So, as y'all all know, if y'all hadn't been in here, you know, they tried to execute Tony Carells this morning, and there were complications.
They needed uh a vein, and they also needed a backup vein. They they they struggled for a minute to find a a sturdy vein. And when they did find that vein, they weren't able to find a backup vein.
So they had to cancel the execution. And finally, the governor budged just a tad bit and said, "We're going to give this man one more year to live. We'll revisit this in 2027."
This [ __ ] is crazy.
Now y'all see why some in Memphis is switching that button, going all out because no justice, it's just us. I got you, bro. I got you. Divine intervention is right. That's a fact.
>> Go further than the headline and stay longer than the news cycle allows.
Subscribe now and turn on notifications so you are here when the next investigation drops. Two positions sit on opposite sides of this case. Both are documented. Both are real. The state of Tennessee's position has not changed. A jury of 12 people heard the evidence in 1996 and returned a unanimous verdict.
Courts at every level, state courts, federal courts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, have reviewed the record and allowed the conviction to stand. The appeals process has been thorough. The sentence in the state's view is lawful.
The defense's position is equally specific. No physical evidence has ever placed Tony von Kurthers at the scene of this crime. His conviction rests on the testimony of a paid informant whose status was concealed for 30 years. The medical testimony that influenced the death penalty vote was later disputed and walked back. Six fingerprints matched no one. DNA on key evidence remains untested. The man facing these consequences was never given a lawyer.
Both of these things are true at the same time. Three people lost their lives in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1994.
Marcelos Anderson, Deoy Anderson, Frederick Tucker. Their deaths were real. Their families have carried this for 30 years. That is not in dispute and it should not be minimized. On May 21st, 2026 at 10:00 in the morning, the state of Tennessee is scheduled to escort Tony von Kurthers to the chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. If that proceeds, he will be the 17th person to receive a state sentence of that nature in Tennessee in the past 50 years. He will also be, according to legal scholars who have reviewed the full record, the first person in more than a century to face that outcome in the United States after having been forced to represent himself at a capital murder trial. The DNA evidence that could clarify the question of his guilt or innocence has never been tested. The state has declined to run it. After Thursday morning, that question will no longer be relevant. In a justice system built on the principle that it is better for 10 guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be wrongly held accountable. How certain does certain need to be? If this case made you think, drop your thoughts in the comments below. And if you want to be here when this channel covers, man, that is a wild case. Salute the final verdict for that content. Oh man. Um, WVLT News interviewed several people that were there and more went on than we know.
They're covering up their lies. I I agree. I agree. I ain't even seen it and I agree.
So, this has been reviewed repeatedly and no one thought, "Ah, let's give this man his life back." The fact of the matter is none of the evidence has been reviewed.
They going off of hearsay um stuff that was that was said by Tony Kurthers before he u even got out of prison, you know, and um a confidential informant that identity remained sealed for 30 years.
that actually recanted the statement and was made to go back to his original statement in the court.
My homie just came home from nine calendars on some trumped up SA charges.
It took a blind Karen to push his agenda before they even listened and a brunette Abigail to overturn the charges. That's crazy.
Two rights made a lot of wrongs.
Elaborate. Elaborate for me. That's your theory. Elaborate for me. I love to hear it, fam.
Oh lord. I thought they said it was reviewing during the appeals process.
Man, it's so much stuff that they did not.
They got fingerprints from the house. Um they don't match Tony Corellas or James Montgomery. They got um skin samples from underneath the fingernails of the victims. They that hadn't been reviewed.
Um they have evidence from a blanket that was on the scene when whoever um was there put them in this grave.
None of that stuff was tested on top of making this man defend himself without proper representation.
Boy, boy, that's a violation of civil rights right there. If anything, if anything, fam, that's a violation of civil rights, you know.
Yeah. It it's it's it's sad to see, but it just lets you know um live a upright upstanding life. You know what I'm saying? If we all come up and we fall a foul of certain situations, you know what I'm saying? We have a wild hair on us and where we want to go for bad or whatever. But Lord have mercy. I pray to God that y'all don't get caught on that side of the law.
You know, the rights are connected to the Solomon family in Tennessee.
I got you. I got you. Yeah, man. It's just a lot of It's just a lot of bad policing. It's a lot of bad policing.
You I mean, you go back to the Dolph case. You look at that policing. You go back to um the situation that town was covering um with um Rico Barnett. Howard Barnett, man. Them folks didn't put in no work to try to find Howard Barnett.
None.
None.
He just disappeared.
You see what I'm saying? It It's a lot of sketchy activity. I was just about to say nothing will happen unless a white college professor and her students take on the case and lay everything out.
Yeah.
Evidence gone. No, they say it's still able to be tested. They say it's still able to be tested. JR, some people's family are very racist.
Yeah. I mean, that's the culture. You know what I'm saying? We we say that like that's um we say that like that's you know like that like that's a scourge and like that's not normal. No. Where we come from that is normal. That is the way of the world. That is that is society.
Yeah. In the in the deep south. Yeah. In the deep south that's the way of the world.
And you know it's the way of the world because you see that for years people have fought just to get the the the baseline rights owed to them as human beings and US citizens.
And these people tired of they tired of fronting. They try they tired of putting on. They want to be their normal self in public. They want to be who they really are in your face.
Hence, make America great again. Let's go back to the time where I could yell at a person and call him a [ __ ] in the public square and nothing happens. You see what's going on with Chud the Builder? These type of people are pressing the line. They bucking the the system and everything that doesn't align with that is evil.
No, this is the culture.
Yeah, this is the culture, fam. A man who was already been diagnosed as batshit crazy defending himself. Yeah, they don't care. They don't care. They were going through the motions, man.
They were going through the motions in that court. That man broke down. I'm talking about y'all seen earlier in the video, he broke down. No, that was on the the first video I showed when he was in court. He broke down crying, man.
Yeah, you can only take so much.
The fact that the police can't be policed is scary as f. And I agree.
I agree.
My family being one, I never understood it.
I went through I went through some BS because I had friends that weren't white. Some serious BS, fam. I I man I got a friend that um that is white and you know I feel like I can trust him in any situation.
I mean, but I can't paint that with a broad brush. Just cuz I can trust him don't mean I can trust you know what I'm saying everybody.
And that's that's the problem. Everybody tries to paint situations with broad brushes. You got some you got some scumbag negroes and you got some scumbag white people. Everybody ain't bad.
But some people have ideologies and um they stand on the they stand on the old side of history and some people choose not to stand on the wrong side of history. That's all I can say about that.
It's all I can say about that. But I guarantee you this, your best white friend when you go to when you go to talking about, you know, hey man, this [ __ ] is not fair. This I know. I know. I know. I know.
I know. They not gonna do nothing to mess up they good [ __ ] You know what I'm saying?
They not going to do nothing to mess up they good deals. Hell no. You know what I'm saying? Salute to those that, you know what I'm saying? Um, want to stand up and do something about it, you know?
So, I think it should get time, sir. I agree, Mac. Yeah, your best white friend is complicit in the way [ __ ] been going for the last 400.
Real talk. Real talk. Yeah, man. I know that [ __ ] is it's messed up, man.
It's messed up, bro. I get it, man. I get Listen, you ain't got to tell me. I understand. Yeah, that's all you going to get.
That's all you going to get.
They know they gonna have to drop a drop him a big bag to the bank if that happens though.
Yeah, that's absolutely absolutely. He said incompetent for real. This [ __ ] is crazy.
Said right. My my white friend and I have rolled up and down the road doing business. Uh but there's an unwritten boundary about neither of us.
This is an unre Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Is an unwritten boundary. Neither of us discusses. Absolutely.
My partner tried to, you know what I'm saying? Bring up, you know, 45 47 when 457 was just 45. You feel me?
And I'm like, man, you don't want to hear my response to that, fam. So, we just gonna leave it. We just gonna leave it, man. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, ain't nothing wrong with you having a white friend. Of course, you know that it take everybody. Each one teach one. We need everybody. You know what I'm saying?
It's it's networking for a reason. You know what I'm saying? Maybe they can benefit you in a way. Maybe you can benefit them in a way. You never want to be um entangled with somebody that's they want more from you than they want for you. So you always have to have, you know, saying friends for networking purposes. Um, this my partner, he been there. I can't lie. He's been there, you know, and I know his family, you know, a lot of a lot of people you don't get to go to their family house. I been to they to his house and his family house on multiple occasions. So, you know, it's different. Um, but hey man, you know not to cross that line. Come on man, you know not to cross that line. Real [ __ ] I always be a very Come on, man.
Cuz people believe what they believe and they'll never discuss it around you unless it's a fallout.
Then you see it in real time. 4K, real talk. So, you know, you be cording and you know what I'm saying? Y'all have fun and and build memories or whatnot and but just be careful. That's all. And you got too many. Yeah. That that that could be that could be Yeah.
people go out and y'all have a good time having a few drinks and next thing you know you're in the back of a damn pickup truck.
Hey man, this is Alabama man. For real.
This is Alabama, man. So, you have to govern yourself accordingly and just know where you at, you know, and be straight. I seen um, you know, we seeing what we seeing with Ch the Builder in in Nashville or Clarksville, whatever y'all want to call it. [ __ ] it's looking real bad for Ch the Builder right now.
But um I'm pretty sure that's going to clear up as time goes on.
Yeah, y'all know the situation.
Um he walks around confronts um black people and try to get them to get out their character, you know, um try to get them to get downright violent so he have a reason to, you know, respond with violence. and um outside of a courthouse, he actually um found his one.
And um when he found his one, he he shot the man. Shot the man in the stomach twice and shot himself, trying to shoot the man. And Clarksville got him in custody.
They got him on a $1.25 million bond.
Um, and it's looking like um, he can't get to his give and go account, which would clearly give him more than enough money to pay that bond. Nobody's looking to help him. But I'm watching this very closely, man. I'm watching it very closely because I don't feel like this thing going to end the way it started.
Feel like something's going to happen and, you know, and bro might get a slap on the wrist. They just waiting to see if the person that he'll sell um lives or not. Basically, if he don't if he don't make it, then they probably going to have to go hard on him. Don't be like James Bird. Shout out to James Bird. Rest in peace. I remember James Bird. I think that was the early 90s, late 80s. Jasper, Texas.
Back of a pickup. Yeah, man. racist ass ego tricked himself off the streets.
Absolutely.
Uh, all good. All God said, "Hit, what about a GoFundMe?" I don't know. I I don't know. You talking about for um you talking about for Tony Brothers, you know? Uh I don't know how effective that would be. I don't know what his support system look like. Uh who would be in charge of it, you know?
what he don't what he is in need of I don't think money can pay for just honestly speaking but you said my racist supervisor lives in Birmingham and said come on down and get your tickets to the SEC tournament is I pass you get look it up and then I'm out of here facts facts man years ago I'm talking about years ago.
Um I was at work.
We were driving a box truck. This was like 2003.
And um I had a little homeboy that I met at work. Cool as a fan. Look like Elvis.
You know what I'm saying? His name was West.
And boy, we out on Highway 280. You know what I'm saying? So, we just passed the summit with uh Sak Fifth and all the little upper echelon um designer boutiques and he said, "Hey man, I stay right over here, man. I just got a new shotgun. You want to come see it?" I said, "No, Wes, I'm cool."
I said, "No, Wes, I'm I'm good on seeing shotguns."
I said, "Let's let's just go do this work and get back in, bro.
I ain't no way in the hell I'm going to stop by your house and take a look at your brand new shotgun. Yeah, you talking about lay my ass out on the floor and say I came in that [ __ ] trying to take something. Hell no. Get your mind right.
As you know, he he he will probably he was probably authentic and genuine in that offer. Hell no. Boy, he asked me that question. I got scared of a [ __ ] Ain't no way in the hell. No, no, no, no. Don't ask again. No. Oh, man. Shout out to Wes. One of the ladies love West boy. That boy look just like Elvis, too.
Hell no. Keep your shotgun to yourself, my [ __ ] But yeah, man.
Yeah. I mean, like I said, I mean, I don't know what what money would do in this circumstance, you know, um, keep him comfortable on the inside, but what he what he need help with with is getting these people to actually do their job, you know, test the evidence that they got, you know, it's it's crazy, but I I mean, it's a good idea.
It might start well, but I don't think it would end well. Like I said, I don't I don't know what his support system looks like. Yeah, man. So, he going to chase Jason Williams me. Hey, man. You never know, man. You never know, man.
Going down 280 talking about some Hey, man. Turn off. I stay over here, man.
You man, I just got a brand new shotgun.
and and he a country boy so he you know he he didn't know what the hell he was talking about but that [ __ ] went off in my mind like a dog whistle like hell no I don't want to see no I don't want to see your shotgun fool no gun collection no fishing no camping no hunting trips hell no not even no late night drinking none of that none of that nah bro but uh yeah man that was that was a fun time right Yeah. But listen y'all.
Um I just wanted to come to y'all with this information about Tony Kurthers.
Tony Kurthers has received an extra year onto his life by the state of Tennessee due to their incompetence in trying to execute him. And hopefully within these next 365 days, uh, he finds some semblance of justice to get at least, um, off a death row, you know. Um, I appreciate all of y'all for rocking with us this evening. And, um, I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure Tam going to go live tonight. If she go live, then I'll do a edited video. But if not, I'm I may just pop back out. Who knows? It's Thursday, you know. Um, but yeah, man. I want to say shout out to everybody for, you know, coming in. I hope y'all hit that like button. I ain't even check, but hopefully y'all hit that like button. Um, shout out to, uh, ZK, my dog K Dog, Mac, Dub, JJ, you know what I'm saying? All God Young V in the building. Uh, special shout out to Ash for the donation. I appreciate that, Ashley. Real talk, it, you know, it made popping out worth the while, you know. I appreciate that. Um, let's see here. We got we had Positive Vibes in the building. Tequila. Um, Jesus is King. You know what I'm saying?
Salute to y'all, man. Divine Black Rose, my sis Neo, I see y'all, man. That's love. Thank y'all for coming out, showing love. And you know what I'm saying? I appreciate each and every one of y'all, man. And um like I said, if town don't pop out, we might be back out, you know what I'm saying, a little bit later on tonight. And um we'll get to it then, man.
Simple and plain.
But this is your boy Alabama Hitter.
Until the next time we decide to spin, I'm in the win. Salute to everybody in the chat and my bush babies. Salute Bush babies. Let's go.
Yeah, homie. Back in that [ __ ] Yeah, this [ __ ] murder that [ __ ] Come on with it.
Got a dojo when it feel like coat with them bricks with them. Karate chop.
I just broke it down and recompress. Now it's a lot. Now it's a lot. Now he hot.
>> Now he hot. Gummy blocks. She been eating molly and smoking loud. Smoking loud.
>> She got li and she forgot. [ __ ] I'm from Montgomery. We do numbers on the south. It's going down. [ __ ] you talking about? They say who that thought you knew that I'm that [ __ ] Bang them J.
[ __ ] through the city, getting it crumbing, making major pay. If you ain't about making money, get with dog, we can't relate. I don't [ __ ] with [ __ ] like you. Please just stay up out my way. Okay. I can make it double 24 to 48. Ain't no drop, it's a drop. They going to buy this [ __ ] all day. Pocket rocket on my waist. Yeah, Nina, that's my bae. She going to show little bang.
[ __ ] know that don't play. Okay, me and you ain't equals. No, no, no. We not the same. I'm just soaking up the blessings. Thank the man. I can't complain. [ __ ] finally see the picture.
I just got a bigger frame and I'm still going in. Yeah, you [ __ ] know the name. Got a dojo in it. Feel like whooping breeze karate. I just broke it down and recompress. Nice for now.
>> Now he hot.
>> Now he hot.
>> Tummy blush. She been eating my papers and smoking loud. Smoking loud.
>> She got li and she for [ __ ] I'm from Montgomery. We do numbers on the south.
It's going down. [ __ ] you talking about?
Hey [ __ ] I love the space craw the field. Came back with some triple stacks. Said I we for real. She said bang bang where you at? I told her meet me craw the hill. Look up popping pills on some [ __ ] for real going to crank up the grill. Told your milk. Pull out the speakers party. We can't give a [ __ ] about them peoples for a minute. Damn, they need me in the kitchen. [ __ ] I'm something like a chemist. I'm a young Joe. Late night now I'm lurking [ __ ] Where the cookies at? Yeah, I'm kicking.
That's a fact. Say she sober. Hold on, homie. He'll just take a piece of that.
Got her twisted to the max. Now the [ __ ] won't shut up talking. Bet you didn't know that your baby mama love this when it feel like bricks karate chop. I just broke it down and recompressed. Now it's hot.
>> Now it's now he hot.
>> Now he hot.
>> Diamond blocks. She been eating molly hands and smoking loud. Smoking loud.
>> She got li and she forgot. [ __ ] from Montgomery. We do numbers on the south.
It's going down. [ __ ] you talking about?
Hey, you are here.
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