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Will Wright is the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting's summer fellow. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel and a senior at the University of Kentucky. He has written for the Sacramento Bee and the Lexington Herald-Leader.
In red states both big and small, bills to abolish the death penalty are becoming more common. Helping lead the push: conservative Republicans who say fiscal and pro-life values trump an eye-for-an-eye view of execution.
Amid the many delays, lawsuits and shifting social and political landscape, just what does the future hold for capital punishment in Kentucky?
Revelations about lucrative perks doled out to former University of Louisville president James Ramsey’s top deputies brought outrage Friday from faculty members and taxpayers, but was of no concern to two top trustees.
For the first time this election season, Kentuckians gave more in a single month to Republican nominee for president Donald Trump than to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
According to USDA inspectors, Stark euthanized a young female leopard by beating it to death with a baseball bat. Another leopard, investigators said, escaped and killed a neighbor’s pets before the neighbor shot it. Stark also is accused of physically abusing young tigers that bit customers’ clothing during a “Tiger Baby Playtime” exhibit.
A troubled Louisville-area wildlife exhibit is the subject of another critical inspection. The latest report cited the deaths of four animals: a kangaroo, an adult otter and two baby otters.
State legislators and police officers were allegedly among the customers of a sprawling Frankfort prostitution ring, according to county court documents.