Kentucky effort to resume executions hits snag

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Kentucky effort to resume executions hits snag
By BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press | July 9, 2014 | Updated: July 9, 2014 1:53pm

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's efforts to resume executions appeared to hit a snag Wednesday after a judge said he was concerned that officials want to use the same method that led to an execution that took 26 minutes in neighboring Ohio.

The issues raised by Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd could prolong the decade-long legal fight over how Kentucky puts condemned inmates to death.

In January, Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire gasped and snorted during the 26 minutes it took him to die. Kentucky is proposing that it use a single drug or a two-drug combination. The two-drug method would be identical to the method used in Ohio.

"The court is concerned about the issue presently emerging that we see in other states," Shepherd said. The judge said he may set a future hearing about the state's proposal to use two drugs but did not set a date.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Kentucky-effort-to-resume-executions-hits-snag-5609420.php

[awoke_in_2003]

1. I am against the death penalty...

but I have a question for those who do- are you alright with it taking 26 minutes of torture to kill someone? If so, you are a sick bastard.

[ColesCountyDem]

2. +1000! n/t

[iamthebandfanman]

3. Death isnt a punishment

to those who have already given up on life.

which is almost all murderers... and ALL mass murderers..

when they kill, they know the chances of them dying are extremely high.. notice they don't care?

[mwooldri]

4. I wonder: if I were handed the death penalty, could I claim a religious exemption?

I don't believe in the death penalty, it goes against my faith... And yes this is something I'd love to see imposed on society over the heads of those who are pro death.

As to the OP, I hope some one in Kentucky moves to suspend the death sentence permanently. That way federal judges won't have to worry about killing people and watching them suffer in agony as they are murdered by the state. Maybe the governor could commute those sentences to lifelong imprisonment without parole.