In filings Thursday afternoon, the Kentucky attorney general's office requested that Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd dissolve a nearly 3-year-old order preventing the state from enforcing any death sentences. The issue is set for a hearing March 18 in Frankfort.
Earlier this year, Kentucky switched to a single-drug execution instead of using three drugs. The state also has the option of using a two-drug execution if the chemicals necessary for a single-drug lethal injection are not available.
Shepherd halted all executions in 2010.
