http://wfpl.org en http://wfpl.org/post/kentucky-will-use-single-drug-executions <p>Kentucky is the latest state to switch to a single-drug execution method for inmates on death row.</p><p>The state previously used the a three-drug cocktail in lethal executions. But Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ordered the state to rethink that process to avoid accusations of cruel and usual punishment.</p><p>Officials have spent the last two months doing just that, and a new brief filed this week says executions will be done with either the anesthetic sodium thiopental or the barbiturate pentobarbital.</p> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:50:07 +0000 Gabe Bullard and The Associated Press 1076 at http://wfpl.org