Kentucky State Penitentiary News

A Kentucky death row inmate condemned for the rape and murder of two Louisville high school students in 1984 lost his bid for a new trial Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled a judge properly handled a DNA testing issue.

A man currently serving prison time for the 2002 murder of a Pulaski County man was indicted by a grand jury this month on additional charges.

Three western Kentucky prisons used small things to get through a week without power after deadly ice storms struck the state.

"It was just supposed to be a robbery. No one was supposed to get hurt." That was what Douglas Wayne Hall told the jury that will decide his fate during day three of his trial Wednesday in Madison Circuit ...

The Kentucky State Penitentiary's execution chamber at the prison near Eddyville, Ky.

Two of the three Kentucky prisons in western Kentucky are operating again with full power nearly two weeks after a killer winter storm knocked out electricity and phones at the facilities.

A pair of prisons in western Kentucky are operating on generators after the winter storms knocked out power to the facilities.

Justice Bill Cunningham was elected to the Supreme Court of Kentucky in November 2006 to serve the 1st Supreme Court District.

A western Kentucky county that officials say lost much of its history to the Land Between the Lakes project will be featured in a television documentary next year that will focus on its vanishing past.