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Kentucky Attorney General Wants to Restore the State’s Death Penalty
Kentucky AG seeks to dissolve a 2010 injunction blocking executions, aiming to resume capital punishment for 24 death row inmates after updated regulations in March 2024.
- Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman argued Monday in Franklin Circuit Court to dismiss a 2006 case at the center of the state's 16-year ban on executions.
- This litigation stems from the 1992 murders of Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe, when inmate Ralph Baze challenged Kentucky's lethal injection protocols as constituting cruel and unusual punishment.
- Defense attorney David Barron argued that dismissing the case would trigger "decades of litigation" anew, citing unresolved concerns about lethal injection drugs and safeguards for inmates with intellectual disabilities.
- Judge Phillip Shepherd took the arguments under consideration without issuing an immediate ruling, while new Department of Corrections regulations are scheduled to take effect on April 7, 2026.
- Governor Andy Beshear, who holds authority to sign death warrants, has declined to do so, citing the existing injunction and difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs needed for executions.
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Kentucky attorney general pushes for restart of executions in state
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said Monday that his office is urging the Franklin Circuit Court to dismiss a case that would overturn the state’s nearly 20-year pause on the death penalty.
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Kentucky attorney general wants case that has been blocking state's executions for 15 years to be dismissed
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is asking the Franklin Circuit Court to dismiss a case at the center of the state's 15-year ban on executions.Coleman's team argued in court Monday that it is time to clear the way for about a dozen death row inmates to be executed."This case has been dragging on for 20 years," Coleman said to reporters after court."These gruesome criminals deserve the sentences that they received from Kentucky juries," …
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