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Death Row Inmate Fights for Hip-Replacement

Death Row Inmate Fights for Hip-Replacement
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By The Associated Press
Nov. 27, 2015 | EDDYVILLE, KY
By The Associated Press Nov. 27, 2015 | 10:09 AM | EDDYVILLE, KY
A Kentucky death row inmate has renewed his request for a federal court order requiring the state to arrange hip-replacement surgery for him.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Robert Foley's request has been turned down by a federal judge twice since his hip gave out in July. Foley's hip surgery could cost more than $50,000.

In 2012 the Department of Corrections looked for a hospital willing to do the surgery, but a half-dozen declined.

Foley's attorneys say a doctor recommended the surgery in August, and say the surgery could be done at Baptist Health Paducah Hospital.

Foley was convicted of shooting two brothers to death in Laurel County in 1991, and of shooting four people in Laurel County in 1989 and covering their bodies in an unused septic tank.

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