Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Kentucky Lethal Injection Remains on Hold - More on Drug Shortage

By Steve Hall

"Execution on hold for now in death of Hamilton woman; Death warrant expired at midnight," is the title of Brett Barrouquere's AP report via the Journal-News of Hamilton, Ohio. An inmate condemned in the death of a Hamilton native wasn?t put to death as initially planned Thursday after the state?s high court said it would not rescind an order halting the man?s execution.The death warrant for 53-year-old Gregory Lee Wilson expired at midnight. Prosecutors had asked the Kentucky Supreme Court to lift the stay halting the execution, but the court did not act on that request by day?s end. And: A judge last Friday ordered Wilson?s execution ? as well as all executions in Kentucky ? stopped because of questions about the inmate?s mental health and concerns about the state?s written procedures for carrying out a lethal injection...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).