Lexington Herald Leader
Bench trial opens on Kentucky's execution
Eddie Lee Harper either suffered little and died peacefully or was still awake and possibly in pain when he was executed in May 1999.
Louisville Courier Journal
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Calling it "an agonizing way to go," a public defender said yesterday that execution by lethal injection in Kentucky could leave an inmate conscious but paralyzed as a caustic drug is injected to induce heart failure.
