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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…