No imminent execution(s), as the U. S. Supreme Court will consider whether Kentucky's lethal injection is constitutional.

There will NOT be any executions in Kentucky any time soon -- at least NONE in Kentucky this year -- as the U. S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Kentucky's lethal injection method for executing death row inmates is constitutional.

Here is the release from the U. S. Supreme Court:

07-5439

BAZE, RALPH, ET AL. V. REES, COMM'R, KY DOC, ET AL.

The motion of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted.
The brief of petitioners is to be filed with the Clerk and
served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m., Monday,
November 5, 2007. The brief of respondents is to be filed with
the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m.,
Monday, December 3, 2007. A reply brief, if any, is to be
filed with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or
before 2 p.m., Friday, December 28, 2007. Briefs of amici
curiae are to be filed with the Clerk and served upon counsel
for the parties on or before 2 p.m., 7 days after the brief for
8 the party supported is filed, or if in support of neither party,
within 7 days after the petitioners’ brief is filed.

My view? There MUST be something about how Kentucky administers the lethal injection that 4 or 5 of the 9 Justices find constitutionally offensive. I do NOT know much about the process to venture an opinion on the matter.