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HAMILTON v. FORD

No. 409.

362 F.Supp. 739 (1973)

Rudolph HAMILTON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Wendell H. FORD, Governor of Kentucky, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Kentucky, Frankfort Division.

August 3, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Johnson, Frankfort, Ky., for plaintiffs.

Ed W. Hancock, Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort, Ky., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

SWINFORD, District Judge.

This action was commenced by Kentucky prisoners incarcerated following convictions of willful murder. In each instance, the death penalty originally imposed was commuted by former Governor Ned Breathitt to life imprisonment without parole. Kentucky Constitution Section 77. The plaintiffs claim that the commutation, insofar as it purports to deny parole, violates Section 28...

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