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As interns at the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, we were given the opportunity to spend a day with the detectives of the Lexington Division of Police’s Detective Bureau (DB). The Detective Bureau is located at police headquarters in downtown Lexington. There are multiple units within the Detective Bureau, each unit assigned with the responsibility of following up the investigation of reported crimes. Read more »  Michael St. Clair Michael St. Clair “is a serial murderer guilty of killing at least six innocent people.”
The Kentucky Supreme Court reversed, for the second time, the death sentence of Michael Dale St. Clair, who had been convicted of kidnapping and murder stemming from a 1991 multi-state crime spree. Read more »
In the mid-1980’s, Timothy B. Hennis, a former soldier, was convicted in civilian court in North Carolina of raping and murdering Kathryn Eastburn and killing her two daughters. The N.C. Supreme Court reversed the conviction. On re-trial in 1989, Hennis was acquitted. Read more »
As a general rule, death penalty cost studies are worthless. Those that purport to compare life without parole costs to death penalty costs are, in most cases, comparing apples to kangaroos, not apples to apples. Read more »
Frankfort – Four Justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court voted to stop the use of lethal injection to execute convicted killers on Kentucky’s Death Row. They said that the appropriate administrative process was not followed, including holding public hearings before using the method. Read more » “Do you support the death penalty for killers who commit aggravated (death penalty eligible) murders?”
Note: This article is excerpted from an article written by Dudley Sharp, one of the most knowledgeable Americans about the death penalty and its application. Most polls wrongly ask a variation of “Do you support the death penalty for murder?,” usually getting replies in the 64-75% range. Read more » Last meals of some condemned killers.
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By Intern Whitney Mobley
If you were on death row what would be your last meal? Think about it. It’s not as simple a question as it appears. Your first instinct might be to pick your favorite food. But maybe you might select your most meaningful food, such as the first meal your wife made you, or one of your mom’s memory-laden classics. Or maybe your desolation and bitterness would leave you so resigned that you would forgo a final feast. 