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Kentucky Criminal Law Experts Call For Reform, Cortney E. Lollar
Kentucky Criminal Law Experts Call For Reform, Cortney E. Lollar
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In this article for Bench & Bar Magazine (the Kentucky Bar Association's magazine), Professor Cortney Lollar discusses the Second Annual Forum on Criminal Law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Life And Death In Kentucky: Past, Present, And Future, Roberta M. Harding
Life And Death In Kentucky: Past, Present, And Future, Roberta M. Harding
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This article provides a historical survey of capital punishment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, paying particular attention to gender and race. The author concludes that given the lack of recent executions that it is perhaps time to make legislative changes to the Commonwealth’s death penalty practice.
Getting Jurors To Awesome, Cortney E. Lollar
Getting Jurors To Awesome, Cortney E. Lollar
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A 2011 American Bar Association report on the death penalty in Kentucky revealed that a shocking two-thirds of the 78 people sentenced to death in Kentucky since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 have had their sentences overturned on appeal. Kentucky’s reversal rate is more than twice the national average, with a 31% reversal rate in capital cases and almost four times the 17% national reversal rate in all other case types. With a sentence as irreversible as death, troubling does not begin to describe the depth of concern many experience when viewing such a startling statistic.
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