Kentucky's new method for executing prisoners by lethal injection is set to take effect, but 3 condemned inmates have asked a judge to stop the state from using it.
Death row inmates Ralph Stevens Baze, Thomas Clyde Bowling and Brian Keith Moore filed a motion Friday in Franklin Circuit Court through public defender David Barron. The motion asks a judge to declare the state violated a Kentucky Supreme Court order in the way it adopted the new method.
A hearing is set for May 19.
The challenge says the state fails to spell out how the chemicals would be injected, authorizes unqualified people to insert intravenous lines and doesn't allow death row inmates to address a public hearing about the protocol.
Source: Associated Press, May 7, 2010
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