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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Kentucky since 2008, and only three since 1976. The most recent execution was of Marco Allen Chapman, who was executed for two murders.
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Harper dropped his remaining appeals while Chapman waived all non-statutory appeals during initial sentencing. (According to the Kentucky Revised Statutes, all sentences of death in Kentucky must be reviewed and affirmed by the Kentucky Supreme Court before they are carried out.) Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea.
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Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [87] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [88] [89]
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
A Georgia mother who in 2021 shot and killed her 7-year-old son, in part because she was under the delusion that her husband, the boy’s father, was a serial killer, on Wednesday pleaded guilty ...