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Lethal Injection and Kentucky

By Steve Hall

"Judge refuses to halt hearing on Ky. execution method," is the title of Brett Barrouquere's AP report, via the Louisville Courier-Journal.Saying he does not have authority over the General Assembly, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd on Wednesday declined to halt a legislative hearing on Kentucky's proposed execution method.Shepherd also said he would be inclined to allow several items from the state's now-defunct procedures to be unsealed at the hearing, which is scheduled for Monday.Shepherd's ruling came at a hearing on challenge brought by an attorney for death-row inmates Ralph Baze, Thomas Clyde Bowling and Brian Keith Moore, who want parts of the state's old protocol made public and aired before lawmakers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 04, 2010 (boomark / email).