Kentucky Court: No Executions Until Death Penalty Process Changed
Wednesday 25 November 2009
by: Jack Brammer | The Lexington Herald-Leader
Frankfurt - Kentucky may not execute anyone until it adopts regulations in compliance with the law, the
The court ruling came in the case of three Death Row inmates – Thomas C. Bowling, Ralph Baze and Brian Keith Moore – who were challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol.
Bowling was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1990 murders of a husband and wife as they were parked in their car outside their dry cleaning business in
Baze was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1992 murders of two police officers who were attempting to serve five fugitive warrants on him in
Earlier this week, Attorney General Jack Conway asked Gov. Steve Beshear to set an execution date for Baze and two other men on Death Row.
Meanwhile, the state’s top public defenders, a leading anti-death-penalty group and a group of lawyers sought a moratorium on executions until a recently organized American Bar Association review of the implementation of the death penalty in
In its 35-page ruling, the court said the state Department of Corrections must follow state-mandated administrative procedures before adopting the current lethal injection process of a three-drug cocktail.
It also said the state should have held public hearings on the process.
“The Department of Corrections is required by
It identified “limited issues of internal management” as identities of the execution team, storage location of the drugs and other security-related issues.
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