Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Lawmakers To Hear Execution Protocal
KENTUCKY....
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said Wednesday he doesn't have the authority to stop lawmakers from holding a hearing scheduled for Monday on Kentucky's proposed execution method, and he would be inclined to allow several items from the state's now-defunct procedures to be unsealed at the hearing. The ruling came in response to a challenge brought by an attorney for three death row inmates who wanted parts of the state's old protocol made public and aired before lawmakers.
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said Wednesday he doesn't have the authority to stop lawmakers from holding a hearing scheduled for Monday on Kentucky's proposed execution method, and he would be inclined to allow several items from the state's now-defunct procedures to be unsealed at the hearing. The ruling came in response to a challenge brought by an attorney for three death row inmates who wanted parts of the state's old protocol made public and aired before lawmakers.
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