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| Lethal injection put on trial |
| By AP |
| Published: 04/25/2005 |
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Two condemned inmates say Kentucky's procedures and drugs used for lethal injection amount to unconstitutionally cruel punishment. And last week, Kentucky's lethal injection method of capital punishment went on trial. Condemned inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling claim the procedures produce a painful, tortuous death barred by the Kentucky and U-S constitutions. But attorneys for the Corrections Department argue that the inmates want procedures more stringent than required of a hospital. Franklin County Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden has issued a stay just days before Bowling's scheduled execution in November to take up the case. Crittenden has scheduled four days of a bench trial for last week and more proceedings next month to let the Corrections Department defend its procedures. Until the ruling, and the outcome of the likely appeal, Kentucky will not be carrying out any executions. Eddie Lee Harper is the only Kentucky inmate put to death by lethal injection, on May 25th, 1999. |
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