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Kentucky Eyes Coming Executions

By Steve Hall

"Execution flurry in Kentucky may start by early summer," is the title of an AP report by Brett Barrouquere, via the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle.Kentucky has executed rarely since the reinstatement of the death penalty three decades ago, but a half-dozen inmates could exhaust their appeals by the end of the year.The state is on the verge of re-enacting the process that uses a three-drug cocktail to execute inmates, and could start setting execution dates for multiple inmates by early summer. Among those whose appeals have run out are Ralph Stevens Baze, convicted in 1992 of killing Powell County Deputy Arthur Briscoe and Sheriff Steve Bennett."I'll be glad when the chapter on Ralph Baze is closed," said Rose Bennett, the widow of the sheriff and sister of the deputy...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).