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| Ky. alters execution protocol |
| By WTVQ |
| Published: 12/27/2004 |
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Facing a legal challenge in Franklin Circuit Court, the Kentucky Corrections Cabinet is altering how it executes a death row inmate by lethal injection. Cabinet attorneys filed sealed documents in court Dec. 17 that alter the lethal injection procedures. The changes come in response to the lawsuit filed by two inmates close to execution. A cabinet spokeswoman, Lisa Lamb, tells Action News 36 that the only substantial change is to the amount of the dose of the first of the three drugs used during a lethal injection. The dose for the drug which puts the inmate to sleep will go from two to three grams. The Corrections Cabinet believes its current procedure would have been upheld by the state Supreme Court, but it was making an effort to satisfy the judge. Lamb says the changes should end the dispute. But, a lawyer for death row inmate Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr, one of the prisoners who filed the suit, says the changes are not acceptable. The legal battle over the state's lethal injection protocol is one of two reasons Bowling got stays on his scheduled November 30th execution. |
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