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| Flawed executions in other states cause more death penalty scrutiny in Kentucky |
| By wdrb.com- Jason Riley |
| Published: 06/02/2014 |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Local attorneys representing a Louisville woman accused of murder recently took a novel approach -- and one ripped from current events -- in arguing why she shouldn’t face the death penalty. No one can provide details on how she would be put to death, Ellen Crawley’s lawyers said, including whether Kentucky would inject the same drug cocktail used in a flawed execution in Ohio earlier this year in which an inmate gasped and convulsed for more than ten minutes before dying. Attorney Jon Heck told Jefferson Circuit Judge Charles Cunningham on April 15 that Kentucky’s current death penalty protocol is “part of the uproar nationally.” The Ohio defendant was "clearly suffering and that’s exactly (the drugs) Kentucky calls for," Heck argued, asking for a hearing in which the Department of Corrections would explicitly say how an execution would occur here. Read More. |
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