Kentucky is one of 27 states where the death penalty is still legal. House Bill 38, remains in committee. Kentucky’s constitution gives only the Governor, the authority to commute death sentences.

Kentucky is one of 27 states where the death penalty is still legal. In the last 20 years, the commonwealth has executed one inmate who was on death row. That was Marco Allen Chapman in 2008.

Lawmakers in Frankfort are considering a bill that would mark the end of the death penalty in Kentucky. By Jessica Umbro Published : Jan. 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM EST ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The sentence of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate has been upheld by a federal appeals court. On death row since 1980, Karu Gene White lost repeated appeals in ...