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- The Kentucky Department of Corrections website shows 30 people currently on death row, including one female inmate.
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EPPERSON, ROGER D. (DOB 03-19-50) Epperson is currently on Death Row for the murder and robbery of Bessie and Edwin Morris in their home in Gray Hawk, Kentucky on June 16, 1985. He was sentenced to death initially in 1996. .
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Jul 3, 2019 · A photo gallery of Kentucky death row inmates who have been sentenced to execution. Learn more about the gruesome acts that put them behind bars.
- Charles Montaldo
Nov 22, 2022 · According to Death Row U.S.A. Spring 2022, a report by the Legal Defense Fund, 27 people were on death row in Kentucky as of April 1, 2022 - the 16th most among states.
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1868 - Susan Eliza is the last child to be hanged in Kentucky at thirteen years old. She was the last female executed by Kentucky. 1928 - Kansas sequentially executes seven men by electrocution. 1936 - Rainey Bethea is executed by hanging in the last public execution in Kentucky, with newspapersat the time estimating as many as 20,000 witnesses. 19...
Rainey Bethea,executed August 14, 1936 at Owensboro, Kentucky, was the state’s last public execution. He was publicly hanged for rape on August 14, 1936 in a parking lot in Owensboro, Kentucky (to avoid damage to the courthouse lawn by thousands of people who were expected to attend). Bethea, who was black, confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-...
Larry Osborne— then the youngest person on Kentucky’s death row — was acquitted upon retrial in July 2002 for the December 1997 murders of two people. Osborne was 17 at the time of his arrest. The 1998 conviction and death sentence was overturned by a unanimous vote of the Kentucky Supreme Court and a new trial was ordered.
In 1880, Kentucky abolished public hanging. In 1920, Kentucky restored public hanging for rape and provided that the sentence was to be carried out in the county where the rape occurred, although prisoners condemned for murder were executed in prison in the electric chair. In 1938, Kentucky abolished hanging after as many as 20,000 people witnessed...
Kentucky adopted the Racial Justice Act on February 5, 1998, allowing judges to consider whether racial bias played a role in the decision to seek or impose the death penalty.
Kentucky holds the record for the most judicially authorized executions in a single day: on July 13, 1928 seven men were sequentially electrocuted in “Old Sparky” (the nickname given to the electric chair in Eddyville). Kentucky has not executed a female in more than 150 years. On February 7, 1868, Kentucky executed a 13-year-old black girl, identi...
Jun 21, 2019 · Kentucky Death Row. As of 2015, Harold McQueen is the only person executed in Kentucky involuntarily since 1976. Edward Lee Harper (executed on May 25, 1999) and Marco Allen Chapman (executed on November 21, 2008) both volunteered to be executed.
- Charles Montaldo
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. Rees, which caused the staying of all executions in the entire United States between September 2007 and April 2008.
This is a complete list of all inmates executed in Kentucky since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976.
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