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ABA Assessment For Kentucky's Capital Punishment System

By Steve Hall

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports, "Beshear asked to halt executions for study of Kentucky?s death-penalty system," by R.G. Dunlop.Gov. Steve Beshear has been asked to halt all executions until a 10-member team of state lawyers and former judges recently appointed by the American Bar Association can assess Kentucky?s flawed death-penalty system.The request, sent in letters Monday to Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway by two of the state?s top public defenders and a dozen Kentucky lawyers, came the same day as Conway asked the governor to set execution dates for three death-row inmates.Neither Beshear nor Conway indicated Monday that they would grant the request for a moratorium.Beshear spokeswoman Kerri Richardson issued a statement saying that the governor ?supports the death penalty for violent and heinous crimes and reviews each case to see if extenuating circumstances exist...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 24, 2009 (boomark / email).