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At around 10 p.m., the Kentucky State Fair Board announced a “soft close” of the fair for the safety of guests. Based on information available, the state fair was expected to continue with ...
This is a list of people executed in Kentucky. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, three people have been executed in Kentucky.
Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. It reaffirmed the Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg. The ...
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2000. Eighty-five people were executed in the United States in 2000. Forty of them were in the state of Texas; the most carried out within a single year in Texas state history. Two ( Betty Lou Beets and Christina Marie Riggs) were female. Five (four in Alabama and one in Virginia) were executed via electrocution. [1] [2]
The fair will resume normal operations on Sunday, officials said. The Kentucky State Fair, which began Thursday, is an annual multiday event held at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
The death penalty for juveniles in the United States was first applied in 1642. Before the 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling that instituted a death penalty moratorium nationwide, there were approximately 342 executions of juveniles in the United States. In the years following the 1976 Gregg v. Georgia ruling that overturned Furman and upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty, there were ...
Georgia Davis Powers (née Montgomery; October 19, 1923 [1] – January 30, 2016) was an American politician who served for 21 years as a state senator in the Kentucky Senate. In 1967, she was the first person of color elected to the senate. [1] [2] During her term, she was "regarded as the leading advocate for blacks, women, children, the poor, and the handicapped," and was the chair of the ...
On April 26, 2013, the Kentucky State Fair Board stated that the seating in the stadium was unstable for people to sit in. Seating was placed on the field for concerts at the 2013 and 2014 Kentucky State Fair.