FRANKFORT — A judge has denied a request for an injunction that could have halted Friday’s scheduled execution of a confessed child killer.
Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd entered an order Tuesday morning in a lawsuit that questioned whether the Kentucky Department of Corrections followed proper procedure in developing regulations regarding lethal injections.
Attorney Philip Longmeyer had argued that the state agency should have held public hearings before adopting regulations that spell out how lethal injections are administered. David Smith, an attorney for the state attorney general’s office, said public hearings weren’t necessary because state law spells out the procedure.
If Shepherd had granted the injunction, it would have stopped the planned execution of Marco Allen Chapman.
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