NEW INFO: U.S. Supreme Court Declines Clemency-Related Plea
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Posted: 11:54 AM Oct 3, 2011
NEW INFO: U.S. Supreme Court Declines Clemency-Related Plea
The decision means state prison administrators cannot be compelled to provide clemency information for 56-year-old Ralph Baze, who is awaiting execution for the 1992 slayings of a Powell County sheriff and deputy.
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UPDATE 10/03/11
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a clemency-related plea from a Kentucky death row inmate.

The decision, handed down Monday, means state prison administrators cannot be compelled to provide clemency information for 56-year-old Ralph S. Baze, who is awaiting execution for the 1992 slayings of a Powell County sheriff and deputy.

Baze sought to have prison guards and officials, along with death row inmates, provide information about how he has behaved in prison.

Baze was the lead plaintiff in a case the U.S. Supreme Court used in 2008 to rule the lethal injection protocol used by nearly three dozen states did not amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Executions in Kentucky are currently on hold after a state judge ruled last year that the lethal injection protocol appeared flawed.


ORIGINAL STORY 11/25/09
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state improperly adopted its lethal injection protocol and must readopt procedures to administer the three-drug cocktail used to execute condemned inmates.

The ruling comes in a challenge brought by three Kentucky death row inmates.

The inmates said the Kentucky Department of Corrections did not follow state-mandated administrative procedures before adopting the current three-drug protocol and should have held public hearings on it.

The high court made its decision Wednesday, just days after Attorney General Jack Conway requested execution dates for Ralph Baze, Gregory Lee Wilson, and Robert Carl Foley.

Gov. Steve Beshear had not acted on the requests as of Wednesday morning.

Latest Comments

Posted by: roane on Oct 4, 2011 at 10:19 PM

this man should have been EXECUTED years ago..instead we have paid for his food board and legal fees...this is stupid
Posted by: Chickie on Oct 3, 2011 at 03:22 PM

We're not Saddam Hussein or some third-world dictatorship. Our constitution prevents cruel and unusual punishment. So, no, they won't be shot or hung or starved or mutilated or anything like that. We need to execute our prisoners as cleanly and humanely as possible, because we're not animals. For these guys, it doesn't matter how they die, when they die, their troubles are just beginning. *Unless!* They sincerely ask Jesus into their hearts. Then they will be forgiven no matter what they've done. As to "Hey Look", why shame on ksc? They did their job, reviewed the case before them, and handed down a decision disagreeing with the inmates' plea and upholding the KY penal system's method of lethal injections. What did they do wrong?
Posted by: Ohio on Oct 3, 2011 at 01:33 PM

Also, the judge who ruled the protocol flawed, and upheld the executions should be tared and feathered and run out of town on a rail! We need to turn back the time on some of these punishments to a era when they worked to deter crime!
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