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  2. Capital punishment in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    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 retrial, applying the common law rule for mistrial.

  3. Burial Act 1857 - Wikipedia

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    The Act made it illegal to disturb a grave (other than for an officially sanctioned exhumation). The Act did not make it illegal to steal a dead body, and it is only the opening of the grave which constitutes an offence, not the removal of the contents.

  4. Can you scatter ashes anywhere in Kentucky? What state law ...

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    Specifically, Kentucky Revised Statute 367.97524 (2) states cremated remains shall be placed in a grave, crypt or niche, such as that of a columbarium for storing funeral urns. They may also be ...

  5. Grave robbery - Wikipedia

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    [n 1] A related act is body snatching, a term denoting the contested or unlawful taking of a body (usually from a grave), which can be extended to the unlawful taking of organs alone. Hole that was dug by looters in Chan Chan, Peru. Grave robbing has caused great difficulty to the studies of archaeology, art history, and history.

  6. Grave desecration - Wikipedia

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    Illegal body snatching from graves provided cadavers for sale to medical schools for dissection during anatomy demonstrations. Because of the taboo and theft of corpses the dissection of corpses was often carried out in secret. [5] Body snatching was practiced by resurrectionists in the United Kingdom until the Anatomy Act 1832.

  7. It’s not illegal to keep a dead body in your Kansas home ...

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  8. Water cremation - Wikipedia

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    An alkaline hydrolysis disposal system at the Biosecurity Research Institute inside of Pat Roberts Hall at Kansas State University. Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation, resomation, [1] [2] flameless cremation, [3] aquamation [4] or water cremation [5]) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat; it is alternative to burial, cremation, or sky burial.

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