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When the Commonwealth's Attorney seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. Kentucky is the only state without provision on what happens if the penalty phase of the trial results in a hung jury. Thus, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that in cases that end with a hung jury, the judge must order a penalty ...
Harold McQueen was born on July 25, 1952. [1] When McQueen was 10 years old, he drank alcohol for the first time. At his murder trial, a psychiatrist noted that although that was a "rather young" age to start drinking, McQueen claimed he "never had anyone to tell him to stop drinking."
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging ...
A death penalty case that brings up issues of bias inherent within Kentucky’s death penalty system. | Your Feb. 27 Daily Briefing.
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. ... who had stopped to ask for ...
Panera Bread said it's discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content. ... 2022 after drinking a Charged Lemonade ...
Baze's court case was Baze v. Rees. Baze had been scheduled for execution on 25 September 2007 but, on 12 September, was issued a stay of execution by the Kentucky Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal. On April 16, 2008, the Court affirmed the Kentucky Supreme Court's decision that the injection protocol does ...
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