As the state prepares to execute Jacksonville killer Michael Bell, here's a look at five of the most reprehensible cases this ...

Most of Kentucky's most violent convicted offenders have spent decades on death row. The last time Kentucky issued a state-facilitated execution, it was 2008. America had entered the Great ...

Benny Hodge, 73, was convicted in the August 1985 murder of 23-year-old Tammy Acker, a University of Kentucky student who was stabbed to death during a robbery at the home of her father, Dr. R.J ...

Sanders is one of 25 people on Kentucky’s death row. ... sentencing people with mental impairments to death, among other issues. Kentucky passed a law in 2022 prohibiting the death ...

Brian Keith Moore has spent most of his life in prison, serving a death sentence for the 1979 murder of Virgil Harris. From the beginning, Moore said he was framed by an old friend. He’s spent decades ...

Does Kentucky have the death penalty? What states have the death penalty across the U.S. in 2024? What you need to know about Kentucky Death Row and more.

Kentucky's longest-held death row inmate, who received the capital sentence after a gruesome triple homicide in 1979, has lost another appeal, according to the office of AG Coleman.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate will remain there after a court upheld his sentence of capital punishment from more than 40 years ago. Karu Gene White’s most ...

The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 87 years ago by the federal government. The 1938 execution was the first since Michigan abolished the death penalty nearly 100 years ...