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Despite Baze ruling, defense lawyers in Kentucky still pushing for one-drug execution protocol

By Douglas A. Berman

This new local article from Kentucky provides proof that even a Supreme Court smack-down does not seriously deter the efforts of capital defense attorneys to block execution.  The piece is headlined "Attorney seeks to force change in execution method: Three-drug protocol 'unconstitutionally cruel'," and here are the basics: On the heels of two states switching to a single-drug execution method, a defense attorney for multiple Kentucky death row inmates wants a judge to consider if the state's three-drug protocol is unconstitutionally cruel. Defense attorney David Barron said Ohio's successful use of one dose of sodium thiopental to execute inmates is proof that there are safer, quicker and less painful methods of carrying out a death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).