The hearing, set for 10 a.m. before Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, will focus on whether an injunction handed down in November by the Kentucky Supreme Court halting all executions in the state is still in effect.

The high court ruled that Kentucky failed to properly adopt a three-drug lethal injection protocol. The Kentucky Department of Corrections reimplemented the protocol in May. Gov. Steve Beshear set a Sept. 16 execution date for Gregory L. Wilson, condemned to death for a 1987 kidnapping, rape and murder.

An attorney for multiple death row inmates says because no court has dissolved the injunction, it remains in effect and executions are prohibited.

Attorneys for the state say the readoption of the protocol in May ended the injunction because the state complied with the court's order.