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All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1] As of 2022, Harold McQueen has been the only person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky involuntarily since 1976. Edward Lee Harper and Marco Allen Chapman both volunteered to be executed. [2]
Battle. On June 8, 1864, General John Hunt Morgan 's Cavalry attacked U.S. forces guarding a vital supply depot at Mount Sterling. The C.S. forces attacked the U.S. Army camp in Mount Sterling under the command of Captain Edward Barlow. The Confederates captured 380 prisoners and material and took $59,000 from Farmers' Bank.
The state listed is that in which the conviction occurred, the year is that of release and the case is that which overturned the conviction. This list does not include: Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty.
William Morva. William Charles Morva (February 9, 1982 – July 6, 2017) was an American-Hungarian man convicted of the 2006 shooting deaths of Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin, 40, and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, 32, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. He was sentenced to death for the crime and was executed on July 6 ...
The Old Court – New Court controversy (sometimes known as the Kentucky Relief War [1]) was a 19th-century political controversy in the U.S. state of Kentucky in which the Kentucky General Assembly abolished the Kentucky Court of Appeals and replaced it with a new court. The justices of the old court refused to recognize the action as valid ...
41 suspected Unionists. The Great Hanging at Gainesville was the execution by hanging of 41 suspected Unionists (men loyal to the United States) in Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862 during the American Civil War. Confederate troops shot two additional suspects trying to escape. Confederate troops captured and arrested some 150–200 men in ...
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,114. [1] Its county seat is Mount Sterling. [2] With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling. [3]
Austin Harris August 15, 1922 22. Jim McElroy August 15, 1922 23. Bin Burchfield January 14, 1925 24. Robert Tate November 5, 1925 25. Charles Barr: August 20, 1926 26. John F. Webb May 20, 1927 27. John H. Wallace May 25, 1927 28. Herman Coggins November 10, 1927 29. Ben Fowler January 25, 1928 30. Will Terrell June 19, 1929 31. "Henry" August ...