The attack was so violent that the Coroner, Kentucky State Trooper, and detective all testified it was the most brutal murder they had worked.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The sentence of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate has been upheld by a federal appeals court.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the capital sentence of Kentucky’s ...

The Grosses’ granddaughter, Mary Lou Herald, said he not only stile her grandparents but took 40 years of her life by trying ...

Three elderly Kentuckians, 75-year-old Charlie Gross, 74-year-old Lula Gross and 79-year-old Sam Chaney were killed in 1979 in a general store they owned.

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

White and two juvenile accomplices used a crow bar to fatally beat a blind 75-year-old and two other seniors while robbing them in Breathitt Co.

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Justice Lawrence Larkins Koontz, Jr., 85, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, has died.