Who are the Kentucky inmates and what did they do?
They are Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. Baze was condemned for the 1992 shooting deaths of Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe. Baze shot them while they were trying to serve him with warrants. Bowling was sentenced to death for killing Edward and Tina Earley and shooting their 2-year-old son in 1990. What’s the problem with the lethal injection method used now? The three-drug cocktail has been criticized for being out-of-date, complicated and potentially painful to inmates. The first drug is a sedative that is designed to render an inmate unconscious, but it can be less effective if administered improperly. The second drug causes paralysis, which is intended to keep the inmate’s body from bucking involuntarily as he or she dies. The third drug stops the heart, but can cause excruciating pain if the first drug didn’t work. Critics say there’s no way to tell if the inmate received an appropriate dose of the first drug to dull the pain because of the pa
