For Release: April 16, 2008
Contact: J. Tucker Martin or David Clementson
Email: tucker.martin@oag.state.va.us or dclementson@oag.state.va.us
Phone: 804-786-2071
Statement of Attorney General Bob McDonnell on Supreme Court Kentucky Lethal Injection Decision
Richmond- Today, The Supreme Court of the United States upheld lethal injection as administered in Kentucky. Attorney General Bob McDonnell issued the following statement in response to the ruling:
“The Supreme Court has rejected a procedural challenge to Kentucky’s administration of lethal injection. Now that the Court has ruled, the Governor has rightly lifted his moratorium on executions in Virginia. This office will continue, as always, to defend the Commonwealth's authority to carry out the sentences handed down by Virginia courts, and the constitutionality of Virginia’s duly enacted statutes.”
