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Kentucky Moratorium Remains in Place

By Steve Hall

"Court upholds temporary ban on executions," is the title of Brett Barrouquere's AP report, via KY Post. A ban on executions in Kentucky may stay in place while a judge decides if the state's lethal injection protocol is adequate, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court, by a 5-2 vote, left in place a lower court's order temporarily barring executions while condemned inmate Gregory L. Wilson, 54, and other death row inmates challenge the state's execution protocol. The decision means that Kentucky won't be able to carry out an execution, despite having recently purchased enough of a key drug to carry out three lethal injections. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd issued the order in September as the state prepared to execute Wilson for the 1987 kidnapping, rape and murder of 36-year-old Debbie Pooley in northern Kentucky...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2011 (boomark / email).