FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Attorney General Russell Coleman wants to resume executions back up for death row inmates in Kentucky and is seeking clarification on a temporary injunction passed in 2010.

Ralph Baze, who was sentenced to death more than 30 years ago for the murders of a sheriff and deputy in Powell County, is back at the center of the death penalty discussion.

In 2010, there was a temporary injunction preventing the execution of another death row inmate. A judge has kept that injunction in place, putting a pause on next steps for those on death row.

There has not been an execution in the commonwealth since 2008. Chief Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd questioned the insanity regulations.

“The narrow portion of the regulation which I held was dealt with intellectual disability and

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