The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (KCADP) is dismayed by Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway’s irresponsible request that Gov. Steve Beshear sign execution warrants for three Kentucky death row inmates. (To learn more about KCADP, please visit http://kcadp.org.)
Kentucky Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway requested three death warrants Momnday. The figure would double the number of citizens the commonwealth has executed since the death penalty was re-established in 1976.
Conway’s request to Gov. Steve Beshear to set execution dates for three death row inmates comes just two weeks after the Louisville Courier-Journal ran a series of articles and editorials about the ineffectiveness of Kentucky’s death row system.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, “Conway said in a statement that Ralph Baze Jr., Robert Foley and Gregory Wilson have exhausted all of their ‘matter of right’ appeals in state and federal courts.”
For more information about Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway's move, please visit
http://kcadp.org/
The coalition opposes all executions, but Rev. Patrick Delahanty, chair of KCADP, said, “We are asking the governor to hold off on signing any death warrants pending a complete assessment of the way the death penalty is administered in Kentucky. Three executions will shock the conscience of a state that has executed only four people since 1956.”
“With all of the legal and policy questions about the death penalty being raised, including questions about the legality of lethal injection in Kentucky, now is not the time to resume executions much less multiple executions,”
Read more about he American Bar Association's death penalty assessment project in Kentucky at http://kcadp.org/
