FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Friday he asked the Franklin Circuit Court to overrule Gov. Andy Beshear on a death penalty case.

Coleman says he wishes the court to clarify that there is "no impediment" to the governor's signing of a death warrant for Ralph Baze, a man who was convicted in the murders of two Powell County law enforcement officers more than 30 years ago.

In his motion, Coleman argues that the 15-year-old court order blocking the death penalty doesn’t apply to Baze, and that the "governor’s misreading of the law continues denying justice to the families of Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Sheriff Arthur Briscoe."

Beshear recently said during a team Kentucky update that the state has not gone through the full regulatory p

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