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The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. [ 1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1] As of 2022, Harold McQueen has been the only person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky involuntarily since 1976. Edward Lee Harper and Marco Allen Chapman both volunteered to be executed. [2]
April 4, 1934 44. Frank Mays April 4, 1934 45. Jasper Graham April 4, 1934 46. James Pillow September 1, 1934 47. John Deal September 1, 1934 48. Bill Lee January 2, 1936 49. Walter Kennedy January 2, 1936 50. Louis Willis January 2, 1936 51. Ernest Womack April 1, 1936 52. E. K. Harris May 22, 1936 53. Curley Ballard August 11, 1936 54. James ...
Time on death row Other; Christa Pike: In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike lured out her fellow Job Corps trainee, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, to an isolated section of the University of Tennessee agricultural campus, spurred on by the belief that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Pike bashed her head with a chunk of ...
Natasha Wallen Cornett (born January 26, 1979) is an American criminal currently serving a sentence of life without parole at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville for her involvement in the Lillelid murders . In her book The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill, forensic psychologist Helen Smith ...
Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women. Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women (KCIW) is a prison located in unincorporated Shelby County, Kentucky, near Pewee Valley, Kentucky, operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. [ 1] Male and female inmates prior to 1937 had been housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort ...
Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, [ 1] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [ 2] It opened in 1940 [ 3] to replace the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort (later known as Kentucky State Reformatory ...
Raynella Leath. Raynella Dossett Leath, from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, is a woman who was released in 2017 from a life sentence at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville for the 2003 murder of her husband David Leath. Prosecutors alleged that she shot her husband in the head, and then attempted to stage his murder as a suicide.