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Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that sanctioned the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least 16 years of age at the time of the crime. [1] This decision came one year after Thompson v.
The governor also has the sole power of clemency with respect to death sentences. [4] Among Kentucky death row inmates is Ralph Baze, who unsuccessfully challenged Kentucky lethal injection protocol before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2008 case Baze v.
The legislature generally sets a short, mandatory minimum sentence that an offender must spend in prison (e.g. one-third of the minimum sentence, or one-third of the high end of a sentence). The parole board then sets the actual date of prison release, as well as the rules that the parolee must follow when released.
A federal judge sentenced a south-central Kentucky man to 30 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A total of six officers have pleaded guilty to violating the inmate’s rights in connection with the assault, and another faces charges.
Three former deputy jailers at an eastern Kentucky facility have been sentenced to prison in connection with the death of an inmate. Boyd County Circuit Judge George Davis announced the sentences ...
Sentenced for shooting at a elementary school in Carlsbad, California, injuring two second grade girls. [5] James Timothy McCarthy 2012 182 years to life United States: Convicted of numerous acts of child sexual abuse in California, including continuous sexual abuse of one child. Sentenced to 32 years in prison followed by 150 to life. [6]
A farmer who defrauded the government of $3.5 million by getting crop insurance in the names of other people has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The sentence for David G ...