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- Kevin Stanford, 53, has filed a petition in federal court, asking for a new hearing to reduce his sentence or release him from prison. He was convicted for the brutual 1981 rape and murder of a young, single mother.
www.wlky.com › article › man-convicted-in-brutal-1981-rape-murder-seeks-to-be-releasedMan convicted in brutal 1981 rape, murder seeks to be released
Kevin Stanford committed the murder on January 7, 1981, when he was approximately 17 years and 4 months of age. Stanford and his accomplice repeatedly raped and sodomized Poore during and after their commission of a robbery at a gas station where she worked as an attendant.
Petitioner Kevin Stanford committed the murder on January 7, 1981, when he was approximately 17 years and 4 months of age. Stanford and his accomplice repeatedly raped and sodomized Poore during and after their commission of a robbery at a gas station where she worked as an attendant.
Facts of the case. At 17 years old, Kevin Stanford was convicted by a Kentucky jury of murder, sodomy, robbery, and the receipt of stolen property. Stanford was sentenced to death under a state statute which permitted juvenile offenders to receive the death penalty for Class A felonies or capital crimes. Stanford appealed his sentence and his ...
Case Summary. Kevin Stanford, an African American, was 17 years of age at the time of his arrest for the January 7, 1981 murder, robbery, sodomy and theft of Baerbel Poore, a twenty-year old service station attendant.
Kentucky 1989. views 2,742,754 updated. Stanford v. Kentucky 1989. Petitioner: Kevin N. Stanford. Respondent: State of Kentucky. Petitioner's Claim: That executing him for committing murder when he was seventeen years old would be cruel and unusual punishment. Chief Lawyer for Petitioner: Frank W. Heft, Jr.
Kentucky. United States Supreme Court. 492 U.S. 361 (1989) Written by Salina Kennedy, JD. Facts. The court considered two consolidated cases. In the first case, 17-year-old Kevin Stanford (defendant) robbed a gas station and repeatedly raped and sodomized the attendant before murdering her.
Kevin Stanford, who is African American, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury for the robbery, rape and murder of a 20-year-old white woman, Baerbel Poore, committed when Stanford was 17. His trial lawyer failed to raise compelling mitigating evidence, including of Kevin Stanford’s childhood of sexual and physical
