Editorial — It can happen here
byDon’t let anyone tell you it can’t happen here. Don’t let anyone say Kentucky is a much too conservative state to ever repeal capital…
Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t happen here. Don’t let anyone say Kentucky is a much too conservative state to ever repeal capital…
By Father Patrick Delahanty Fifteen years ago last month, Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun concluded that after a 20-year struggle with the issue…
So now the state of Kentucky is looking for a new way to kill its death row inmates. A few weeks ago the state…
By Jessica Able, Record Staff Writer Seven years, eight months and 26 days. That’s how long Gary Drinkard spent in jail for a crime…
There is a change in the air; you can almost feel it. It has nothing to do with the winding down of summer and…
By Glenn Rutherford, Record Editor Last week in California, a federal judge ruled that the state’s death penalty system was so broken that it…
What next, the guillotine? To avoid the horrific scene that played out in Oklahoma on April 29, where an allegedly-lethal injection once again went…
Last week the Associated Press, CNN and other news outlets reported that new evidence had been gathered by the Innocence Project which indicated that…
By Marnie McAllister, Record Assistant Editor With encouragement from the Catholic Conference of Kentucky, state Rep. David Floyd introduced a bill last week to end…
By Marnie McAllister, Record Assistant Editor FRANKFORT, Ky. — Expanding access to Catholic education and repealing the death penalty were the focus of this year’s…