30 October 2024 :
October 24, 2024 - Kentucky. The Kentucky Supreme Court has dismissed a request from the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to allow the commonwealth to resume carrying out executions for death penalty convictions, according to an opinion released Thursday.
The unanimous ruling comes after the Department of Corrections revised its rules for lethal injection procedures in March and Attorney General Russell Coleman subsequently filed a motion to lift an injunction that has halted executions in the commonwealth since 2010, according to court records.
The Office of the Attorney General moved to get the Franklin Circuit Court — the court that initially put it in place — to dissolve the injunction, but the court declined to make a ruling. While the Franklin Circuit Court acknowledged that the parts of the death penalty procedures that originally prompted the injunction were no longer in effect, the court argued it is unproven whether the motion to dissolve the injunction is relevant to any "present case or controversy."
