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.
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Lethal InJection Trial Begins Today in Frankfort, KY
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USA Today
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."
USA Today
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."
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