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Kentucky Halts Lethal Injection Until Hearings

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report via Sunday's New York Times.  LINKExecutions are suspended in Kentucky after the state said Friday that it would not appeal a ruling that found it had failed to follow proper administrative procedures when it adopted its lethal injection method. The state must hold public hearings on the injection method before it can resume executions.The Kentucky Supreme Court?s 4-to-3 ruling last month did not challenge the technique that has been upheld in the nation?s highest court and is used by dozens of states. It said the state did not use the proper process for putting it into place.The court said the state must hold the hearings and take public input on the injection technique.Jennifer Brislin, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet spokeswoman, told The Associated Press on Friday that the state would file paperwork this month to start the public hearing process...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).