LOUISVILLE (AP) - On the heels of two states switching to a single-drug execution method, a defense attorney representing multiple Kentucky death row inmates wants a judge to consider if the state's three-drug protocol is unconstitutionally cruel. Public defender David Barron said Ohio's successful use of one dose of sodium... more »
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Kentucky's new method for executing prisoners by lethal injection is set to take effect, but three condemned inmates have asked a judge to stop the state from using it. Death row inmates Ralph Stevens Baze, Thomas Clyde Bowling and Brian Keith Moore filed a motion Friday in... more »
FRANKFORT (AP) - Kentucky's lethal injection protocol could be in place by May after a legislative committee raised no objection to the three-drug method used to execute condemned prisoners. The comittee heard from the Department of Corrections on Monday about changes made to the execution protocol, as well as objections... more »
(AP) - A state judge says he doesn't have the authority to stop lawmakers from holding a hearing on Kentucky's proposed execution method. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd also said Wednesday he would be inclined to allow several items from the state's now-defunct procedures to be unsealed at the hearing... more »
(AP) - Kentucky has revised its proposed lethal injection protocol. The revisions released Tuesday include removing the possibility that a condemned inmate will have deadly chemicals injected into his neck if attempts to find other veins fail. The changes come less than a month after the first public hearing on... more »
(AP) - Experts familiar with execution protocols across the country say Kentucky's proposed lethal injection procedures are vague and unnecessarily secretive in critical areas. Three attorneys and a doctor who reviewed Kentucky's proposal say the protocol it detailed, but it glosses over some areas and omits details in others, particularly... more »
(AP) - A condemned inmate in Kentucky could receive two doses of a lethal three-drug cocktail or a pair of jolts of up to 2,400 volts of electricity under the state's execution protocol, which was released publicly for the first time. The state released the protocol in Frankfort on Tuesday... more »
Kentucky plans to stick with its three-drug cocktail as it seeks to legally readopt its execution method and resume giving lethal injections to condemned inmates. Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet spokeswoman Jennifer Brislin told The Associated Press on Monday that the current protocol will be put through public hearings... more »
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state improperly adopted its lethal injection protocol and must readopt procedures to administer the three-drug cocktail used to execute condemned inmates. The ruling comes in a challenge brought by three Kentucky death row inmates. The inmates said the Kentucky Department of Corrections... more »
