death penalty

Kentuckians who have some serious mental illnesses won’t be subject to the death penalty under a bill that passed out of the state House of Representatives on Wednesday. The measure now heads to the state Senate, which hasn’t supported similar proposals in recent years.

The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill Monday banning the death penalty for people with some severe mental illnesses.House Bill 148 would ban…

A three-judge panel sends Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case back to a lower court for resentencing, saying the jury that sentenced him to death had not been adequately vetted.

The Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday over whether 18 to 21 year-olds should receive the death penalty. This was during a special hearing in…

A hearing for what could be Calloway County's first death penalty case in a century is set for Thursday.Assistant Commonwealth Attorney James Burkeen says…

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the state of Tennessee not to proceed with plans to execute Edmund Zagorski by lethal injection after it refused his…

The Tennessee Supreme Court is fast-tracking the appeal in a challenge of the state's lethal injection drugs.After the move Monday, Justice Sharon Lee…

Tennessee is set to execute its first inmate since 2009 on Thursday evening, barring any last-minute intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court or some…

The trial for what could be the first death penalty case in Calloway County in 100 years is set for January 7.In Calloway County Circuit Court on Monday,…

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…