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Breaking News From Kentucky

By Steve Hall

"Judge halts execution scheduled in Kentucky," is the breaking AP report via Ohio's Dayton Daily News.  It's by Brett Barrouquere.A judge on Friday halted the scheduled Sept. 16 execution of a Kentucky man convicted of a 1987 murder and kidnapping and barred the state from carrying out any other executions because of questions about the state's lethal injection process.Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled that the state's protocol for an execution is inconsistent with the state's law and doesn't provide a safeguard to prevent a mentally retarded or criminally insane inmate from being executed."The Court finds that there are at least two substantial questions of law regarding the validity of the administrative regulations that require the Court to issue an injunction to preserve the status quo until the entry of final judgment," Shepherd wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).