Tennessee Seeking Alternative Drugs to Be Used in Lethal Injection Process
Tennessee’s Department of Correction Commissioner says he’s pursuing the use of drugs that could be used to execute inmates on death row. The Volunteer State’s entire stock of a key lethal injection...
View ArticleKentucky Close to Resuming Executions
At least three death row inmates could be nearing execution as Kentucky moves toward a new lethal injection method, with the governor's office already having requests to set dates for two, and a third...
View ArticlePoll: Capital Punishment Has Strong Support in Kentucky
Two-thirds of Kentuckians support the death penalty as an option for murderers and oppose replacing it with a sentence of life in prison without parole. The Courier-Journal Bluegrass poll of 609...
View ArticleKentucky Could Be on the Verge of Restarting Executions
Kentucky may find out Monday if the state can resume carrying out death sentences. A hearing will be held in Frankfort on the state’s request to lift an order barring executions. Franklin Circuit Judge...
View ArticleEfforts Underway in Kentucky Legislature to Ban Death Penalty
Two Kentucky lawmakers have introduced bills that would eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life without parole. Democratic Sen. Gerald Neal of Louisville and Republican Rep. David Floyd of...
View ArticleCourts To Hear Two Kentucky Death Row Cases
The Kentucky Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal in the long-running case of an escaped inmate from an Oklahoma prison facing a death sentence in the fatal kidnapping of a Kentucky distillery...
View ArticleConservative Group Says Kentucky Could Repeal Death Penalty Within 5 Years
A national conservative group says the effort to get rid of the death penalty in Kentucky is picking up substantial bipartisan support. But legislation to repeal capital punishment failed to gain much...
View ArticleTennessee Gov. OKs Allowing Electric Chair For Executions
Tennessee's governor has signed a bill that would allow the state to use the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. A spokesman for Republican Gov. Bill Haslam confirmed to The...
View ArticleJudge Concerned About 1-Drug Execution Method
A Kentucky judge has expressed concerns about the state's plan to use a single drug to carry out lethal injections after the same method resulted in problems in neighboring Ohio. The issues raised...
View ArticleMerits of Death Penalty Could Be Debated By 2015 Kentucky General Assembly
State Sen. Gerald Neal, a Democrat from Louisville, plans to introduce a bill in January to abolish the death penalty. It’s legislation Neal has brought to Frankfort before. He tells the...
View ArticleDebate Over Kentucky Executions Begins Again
Kentucky lawmakers are set to embark on a discussion of whether executions should have a place in Kentucky's criminal justice system and, if so, how should it be carried out. The Joint Legislative...
View ArticleKentucky Latest State to Renew Debate Over Death Penalty
Allen Ault admits to being a murderer. But Ault isn’t behind bars, nor was he tried for his “crimes." He’s currently dean of Criminal Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. But as Ault told an...
View ArticleSupreme Court Agrees To Rule On Constitutionality Of Execution Drug Cocktail
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to review Oklahoma's method of execution by lethal injection. The justices agreed to hear the Oklahoma case a week after refusing to halt another execution that used...
View ArticleBill to Abolish Kentucky Death Penalty Fails in House Committee
After years of efforts, a bill that would abolish the death penalty in Kentucky received its first legislative hearing on Wednesday, but it failed to advance the House Judiciary Committee by one vote....
View ArticleKentuckians Favor Prison Over Death Penalty As Punishment, Poll Says
A new poll shows Kentuckians overwhelmingly support prison time over capital punishment for people convicted of first-degree murder. Findings from a recent poll by the University of Kentucky Survey...
View ArticleIn Kentucky, A Conservative Push is Underway To End Capital Punishment
After decades of defending capital punishment, some conservative Republicans are walking away from the death penalty. In Kentucky, lawmakers such as Rep. David Floyd, a Nelson County Republican, now...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty In Kentucky: Stayed And Uncertain
The mention of “death row” conjures images of inmates pacing in their cells, awaiting executions. But in Kentucky, defendants have little reason to fear the needle. Most, if not all, of the state’s...
View ArticleKentucky's Use of IQ Test to Determine Competency for Death Penalty Ruled...
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that part of Kentucky’s death law in unconstitutional. The decision stems from a case involving a man convicted of murdering a Muhlenberg County teenager 20 years...
View ArticleKentucky Lawmakers Mull Changes To Death Penalty
Death penalty supporters and opponents both say that Kentucky’s capital punishment system is too expensive, lengthy and in need of reform. Kentucky has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 2010,...
View ArticleTennessee Inmate Asks for Electrocution After Court Ruling
A Tennessee inmate set to be executed this week is asking the state to die by electric chair over lethal injection, calling the move the "lesser of two evils." Attorney Kelley Henry confirmed Monday...
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