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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

There is news to report from Kentucky and Ohio. The AP reports, "Inmates challenge new execution method in Kentucky," via the Lexington Herald-Leader.  It's written by Brett Barrouquere. Kentucky's lethal injection protocol was set to take effect Friday, but three condemned inmates have asked a judge to stop the state from using it to execute anyone.Death row inmates Ralph Stevens Baze, Thomas Clyde Bowling and Brian Keith Moore filed a motion Friday through public defender David Barron in Franklin Circuit Court asking a judge to declare that the state violated a Kentucky Supreme Court order in the way it adopted the new method.The challenge is set to be heard May 19. The state's high court barred Kentucky from conducting any executions in November, finding that officials improperly adopted the three-drug lethal injection method...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).