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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

"Judge to hear argument over Ky. execution protocol," is the AP report via today's Lexington Herald-Leader.A Kentucky judge is set to hear arguments over whether to stop executions in the state, including one scheduled for next week.The hearing, set for 10 a.m. before Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, will focus on whether an injunction handed down in November by the Kentucky Supreme Court halting all executions in the state is still in effect.The high court ruled that Kentucky failed to properly adopt a three-drug lethal injection protocol. The Kentucky Department of Corrections reimplemented the protocol in May. Gov. Steve Beshear set a Sept. 16 execution date for Gregory L. Wilson, condemned to death for a 1987 kidnapping, rape and murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).