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Kentucky Lethal Injection Procedures

By Steve Hall

Brett Barrouquere reports, "Questions arise over lethal injection in Ky." for the AP, via the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle.Carolyn Wehrle wants to provide spiritual counseling to Kentucky's only female death row inmate when her execution date arrives.But Wehrle said the state's proposed execution protocols as written will prevent Virginia Caudill from receiving the sacraments prescribed by her faith."I was allowed to baptize her, but I can't minister to her in her last days?" asked Wehrle, a minister with Light of Christ Ministries in Richmond.Wehrle was one of 18 critics of Kentucky's lethal injection protocol to speak Friday at the state's first public hearing on how executions are conducted. Some speakers called the protocol vague and said it can violate an inmate's rights...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2010 (boomark / email).