Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Changes to Kentucky Lethal Injection Protocol Advance

By Steve Hall

"Committee Discusses Lethal Injection Protocol," is the AP report via Nashville's WTVQ-TV.Kentucky's method of executing condemned prisoners could be in place again by May after a legislative committee raised no objection to the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol.The execution method, considered Monday by a joint legislative committee, now moves to two legislative committees by April 7, then on to Gov. Steve Beshear no later than May 7 for his approval or rejection.Kentucky is going through the process of approving its execution protocol again after the state Supreme Court in November threw out the written procedures and halted all executions, saying the state improperly adopted the procedures.Kentucky has at least two inmates at or near the end of their appeals, and two others who are seeking to waive their appeals and potentially hasten their own executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).