Jack Conway, Kentucky’s attorney general, asked the governor to set three execution dates today
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway asked Gov. Steve Beshear to set execution dates for three men today.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway requested three death warrants this morning. 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.
[Update: Conway's request also comes on the same day that the American Bar Association announced it's conducting an assessment of Kentucky's broken death penalty system and on the same day that 14 prominent Kentucky attorneys petitioned Gov. Beshear to halt executions.]
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.”
Let Gov. Steve Beshear and General Jack Conway know your opinion!
KCADP urges citizens concerned about the commonwealth of Kentucky killing in their name to contact Conway:
Gov. Steve Beshear’s office
Online: Contact form
Phone: 502-564-2611
Address: Gov. Steve Beshear, 700 Capitol Ave., Suite 100, Frankfort, KY 40601
Twitter: @GovSteveBeshear
Attorney General Jack Conway’s office
E-mail: Attorney.General@ag.ky.gov
Phone: 502-696-5300
Address: Ofice of the Attorney General, 700 Capital Ave., Suite 118, Frankfort, KY 40601
Twitter: @kyoag
The death penalty solves nothing
While KCADP has no doubt about the horror of the crimes these men were convicted of, the death penalty is not the solution:
- It’s costly–the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison
- It’s out of step with modern thinking–Kentuckians prefer prison over execution for murderers
- It’s risky–innocent people have been executed
- It’s unfair, broken, and arbitrary–the death penalty is not applied equally
- It’s unnecessary–the death penalty is not a deterrent
- Victims’ families deserve more care and compassion–the death penalty can extend and intensify their suffering
Why abolish the death penalty in Kentucky?
I have mixed emotions about the idea of what you all are wanting to do, but heres what I think. ; the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away….but on the other hand, if someone murdered one of my children, I would be the 1st to say, excute them Now! along with baby-rapers, they are the main ones who don’t deserve to live, in my book. and rapeing old ladies, also. They had no mercy in their doings….why show mercy to them? Another therory, which may seem amuseing to you is, since these people love to kill so much, I say send them to where the war is and force them to fight, that way United States can send our boys/girls home to us. They don’t mind killing, so let them do something valueable. There’s alot of moms greiving TODAY! because of murderers and I think filling the prisons up with them is very stupid. All they going to do is either get out and kill again, or live there in prison till they die. And I know some prisons are just a home away from home. They live better in those places than they do out on the street. I know, cause go look inside of some of them, they have everything they need to live comfortably, clean bed linens, snacks, work out equipment, 3 meals a day, tvs, radios, what more could you ask for? Prison is not a hardship place anymore. There’s some who go there every winter to get out of the cold even, just ask some of them!I know this probably will not get published, but you ask for comments and I got so much I would love to say about all this.
Thanks Evelyn. But how about thinking this way? People are lining up to get into prison and people are always begging to get out. So if prison is so good why would you not want to go live there? And one great reason to show mercy is because you don’t want to be like the killer you describe who did not show mercy. Or do you? I recommend you go to http://www.youtube.com/kcadp and look at some of the videos, especially those by people who had family members murdered. They are asking that the killer not be killed. So some feel quite differently than you do. Again, thanks for thinking and for writing. Hope you see it our way someday.
Correction to sentence in comment above: “People are NOT lining up to get into prison.” Sorry for that slip up Evelyn.