The Kentucky Senate has passed legislation opponents argue would make it easier to bring back the death penalty, and ...

FRANKFORT — Two death penalty-related bills – Senate Bill 138 and Senate Bill 251 – were both advanced Thursday by the Senate ...

A Louisville state senator is pushing for a bill that would eliminate capital punishment in Kentucky.

Two Kentucky state senators have introduced legislation that would eliminate the death penalty in the commonwealth, replacing ...

A federal appeals court has upheld the death sentence of a Kentucky man convicted nearly 40 years ago for fatally shooting ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Thursday that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the capital ...

An appeals court upheld a death sentence for a man convicted of a double homicide, and Kentucky's attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to intervene in another case.

Sen. Brandon Smith filed SB 138 to in response to the death of 10-year-old Jayden Spicer in Breathitt County last year. It would create "Jayden's Law," requiring the death penalty option in cases ...

A federal appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a man convicted in a 1987 double murder, Attorney General Russell ...

A federal court of appeals ruled on March 2 to uphold the sentence for a death row inmate who was convicted in 1987 for killing two men at a variety store in Madison County.