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13 Jul 2011, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
AP reports that a group of death row inmates in Kentucky have filed a class action in federal court challenging Kentucky State Penitentiary's policy of denying one-on-one pastoral visits to death row inmates. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 1:03 pm by Steve Hall
Other than the recreation time, Haight and the 33 other men housed in the Kentucky State Penitentiary's unit for condemned inmates spend their days in cells that are 6 1/2-feet wide, 13-feet long, and 12-feet high. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 2:44 pm by Steve Hall
Wilson at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 8:29 am by Steve Hall
”Instead, she was convicted of kidnapping and facilitation to rape and murder and is serving a sentence of life without parole for 25 years.Now Wilson, after 22 years on death row, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Sept. 16 at the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville.After two motions to stay his execution were denied last week, including one that claimed he is mentally retarded, his fate rests with Gov. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 9:40 am by Steve Hall
The state penitentiary's Parker speculated that Spectrum figured out why the department wanted the drug. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 1:34 pm by Carrie Thompson
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) withdrew its plans to construct a US Penitentiary and Federal Prison Camp in Letcher County, Kentucky, on Thursday. [read post]
21 May 2009, 8:38 am
At question was the three-drug sequence used in Kentucky. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 10:52 pm
"In order to make a knowing and intelligent choice between lethal injection and electrocution, death sentenced inmates must have an opportunity to review the entire execution procedures for both methods," Goyette and Sharp wrote.Calls to Wilson's attorneys were not immediately returned Friday.Wilson, who is housed at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, currently has an appeal pending before the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and previously… [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 3:33 am by Gideon
Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court finally got around to affirming and acknowledging that which most of us in the field already knew: immigration consequences matter. [read post]
28 May 2020, 7:59 am by Wayne D. Holly
  He is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky where he began serving his sentence November 29, 2018. [read post]
28 May 2020, 7:59 am by Wayne D. Holly
  He is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky where he began serving his sentence November 29, 2018. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Here’s the line-up for the DC Working Class History Seminar for 2015-16:September  19Jennifer Luff (Durham University-UK)“Banning reds: the origins of Britain's secret government purge, 1926-1928”Dana Caldemeyer (ABD, University of Kentucky) "Undermined: Blacklegging Businessmen and the 1889 Coal Strike”November 7Seth LaShier (ABD, George Washington University)“Limits to Protest: Hosea Williams and the Struggle for Civil and Economic Rights… [read post]
21 May 2008, 3:34 pm
UPDATE:  The AP has the very latest news here: Mississippi corrections officials say convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry has been executed at the state penitentiary. [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 7:06 pm
"Well-established Fifth Circuit precedent is clear: Death-sentenced inmates may not wait until execution is imminent before filing an action to enjoin a state's method of carrying it out," the court ruled.Berry is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday in the state penitentiary at Parchman. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 9:16 am
Inmates' lawyers also point especially to the lack of a current execution team at the State Penitentiary in Walla Walla as proof the state is unprepared for a proper execution. [read post]
22 May 2009, 9:08 am
During Thursday's court proceedings, plaintiff Stenson testified from the State Penitentiary in Walla Walla via videoconference. [read post]
19 May 2007, 10:12 am
As the US Supreme Court recognized over a century ago, "when a prisoner sentenced by a court to death is confined in the penitentiary awaiting the execution of the sentence, one of the most horrible feelings to which he can be subjected during that time is the uncertainty during the whole of it…, as to the precise time when his execution shall take place. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 1:01 pm by Steve Hall
"I am beginning to think drug companies and suppliers are not real happy to have to supply us for this use," Phil Parker, warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary, wrote in a July email. [read post]
17 May 2013, 4:31 pm by Buce
  "Either the boy will wind up a millionaire or ion the penitentiary," they liked to say. [read post]