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Kentucky Won't Budge on Death Drugs

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report written by Brett Barrouquere, and is via the Seattle Times.  LINKA Kentucky judge on Friday expressed concern about the state's refusal to consider using one drug instead of three to execute condemned inmates, even though state law allows either method.Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said during a hearing in Frankfort that he may order Kentucky corrections officials to explain why the state is sticking with three drugs and apparently hasn't explored other options.Kentucky's law allows lethal injection to be carried out by "injection of a substance or a combination of substances." But the procedure adopted in May is a three-drug protocol, without an option for using a single drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).