State Supreme Court Says Execution Method Used Is Constitutional
The Associated Press
Louisville (AP) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the
state's
lethal injection method is constitutional, possibly clearing the way
for at
least two inmates to be executed.
Kentucky Death Row inmates, Thomas Clyde Bowling, 52, and Ralph Baze,
49,
challenged the state's method of executing condemned prisoners,
saying the
drug formula used amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
The ruling handed down Wednesday in Frankfort affirms a prior ruling
by
Franklin Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden.
Bowling was sentenced to be executed for killing Edward and Tina
Earley and
shooting their 2-year-old son outside the couple's Lexington dry-
cleaning
business in 1990.
Baze was convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and
Deputy
Arthur Briscoe during an attempted arrest in 1992.
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Source : The Associated Press
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