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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…
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Kentucky’s Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary meets in Paducah Friday for a discussion of the state's death penalty. Committee Co-Chair John Tilley of…
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Bill Haslam signed into law a measure that allows the state to opt for the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
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Two Kentucky lawmakers have introduced bills that would eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life without parole.Democratic Sen. Gerald Neal of…
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Kentucky will not appeal a judge's ruling that keeps a ban on executions in place with state officials opting instead to fight out a lawsuit inmates…
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A circuit court judge who halted lethal injections in 2010 has declined to lift that injunction, ruling yesterday that a lawsuit brought by death row…
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Activists with the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty have sent Governor Steve Beshear more than 1,500 postcards asking him to sign no more…
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From NPR: If the last presidential debate was any indication, you'll be hearing a lot about China in tonight's third and final face-off between President…
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The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights is calling on the state to end the use of the death penalty, saying it is often applied unfairly against…
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Critics of Kentucky's proposed new death penalty method have asked officials to make multiple changes to how executions are carried out now that the state…