Though Kentucky has the death penalty, a temporary injunction has paused all executions since 2010.

The longest-serving death row inmate in Kentucky is set to appear in court for a status hearing, according to the Lexington ...

Rulings, recusal fights and a botched Tennessee execution are reshaping what comes next for death row prisoners and ...

Attorney General Russell Coleman has announced a new effort to stop delays in the execution of Kentucky’s longest-held death ...

Justice & Public Safety Cabinet officials said Donald Johnson, 59, was found unresponsive in his cell. Autopsy results are pending.

Christa Pike's execution was botched, and the federal government nearly executed someone in public. Can the death penalty ...

Attorneys for several of Kentucky’s death row prisoners want a Franklin County judge to reconsider claims he previously dismissed in a long-standing death penalty lawsuit after the failed execution of ...

Kentucky has not had an execution since 2008 because of numerous legal issues being argued in court. A botched execution in Tennessee in a high profile case that's drawn national attention is shedding ...

BEREA, Ky. (LEX NEWS) — The attorney general is seeking the death penalty against 19-year-old Brailen Weaver, the alleged shooter in the April 30 Berea bank shooting that killed two people. Russell ...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - A death row inmate died in custody exactly 29 years after being sentenced to death in relation to a fatal stabbing and sexual assault in Hazard, according to the Lexington ...