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When the Commonwealth's Attorney seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. Kentucky is the only state without provision on what happens if the penalty phase of the trial results in a hung jury. Thus, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that in cases that end with a hung jury, the judge must order a penalty ...
Von Luhrte was hired by the county provide medical care to inmates, but only visited the jail once a week. This policy alone violated Kentucky’s administrative regulations, which requires a jail ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
Harold McQueen was born on July 25, 1952. [1] When McQueen was 10 years old, he drank alcohol for the first time. At his murder trial, a psychiatrist noted that although that was a "rather young" age to start drinking, McQueen claimed he "never had anyone to tell him to stop drinking."
A Kentucky Parole Board meeting sign outside of a conference room where the committee meets to decide to grant or deny parole of state inmates. Lyons was shot to death inside her car at a Scott ...
Tuesday’s hearing took place in West Liberty, Kentucky, nearly 100 miles from the Letcher County Courthouse where Mullins was killed. The state appointed a special judge to preside over the case ...
Marco Allen Chapman (September 4, 1971 – November 21, 2008) was a convicted murderer and the last person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.He was executed on November 21, 2008, by lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky.
Christopher Collings' last words, meal before execution in 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl revealed