Friday, August 20, 2010
Kentucky Refuses To Consider One Drug Executions
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky's law allows lethal injection to be carried out by injection of a substance or a combination of substances. Kentucky death row inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling challenged lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's use of the three-drug protocol in 2008. Baze and Bowling say Ohio's use of a single drug to execute eight inmates since December shows there's a safer way to carry out executions. The state refuses to consider using one drug instead of three to execute condemned inmates, even though state law allows it. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said during a hearing in Frankfort Friday that he may order Kentucky corrections officials to explain why the state is sticking with three drugs and apparently hasn't explored other options.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:03 PM 
