Committee Considers Execution Task Force

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Members of the House Judiciary Committee say a proposal to form a task force to study Kentucky executions will likely be dealt with during the current legislative session, but the details of who would be on the task force and how long executions would stop remain unresolved. The task force idea drew the backing of both death penalty supporters and opponents who heard testimony about how 64 percent of death sentences in Kentucky since 1976 have been overturned.