FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — Kentucky’s attorney general is continuing to push for restoring the death penalty for a convicted cop killer. Gov. Andy Beshear said a regulatory process must work out first before that can happen.
“He assassinated these two law enforcement officers. He has been on death row for decades now,” Attorney General Russell Coleman said Tuesday.
Ralph Baze has spent more than three decades in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe in 1992. Kentucky’s last execution was in 2008, and since 2010, an injunction by the Franklin Circuit Court has put them all on hold due to concerns over the state’s execution protocol.
“One of its holdings was that we did not have a regulation that would be necessa