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By Richard Willing, USA TODAY
A Kentucky case that begins today is the latest legal challenge to lethal injection, the nation's most used but increasingly controversial form of execution.
Lexington Herald Leader
Lousiville Courier
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The use of lethal injection to carry out capital punishment in Kentucky will go on trial next week.
The case, which opens Monday before Franklin Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden, was brought by two death row inmates who challenged the procedures used by the Corrections Department in administering lethal injections.
Susan Balliet, a Department of Public Advocacy lawyer, contends that lethal injection brings on a death "that is pure torture."
