Kentucky Moves Closer to Repeal

In the near future, our neighbors to the north could join the 18 other states that have repealed the death penalty. The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is working hard to educate their state on the enormous cost, unfairness, and risk of executing innocent people that is inherent in their death penalty system. Repeal legislation will be sponsored in Kentucky’s General Assembly next year and advocates are hopeful that a bill to end capital punishment will pass in 2015.

Witness to Innocence President and former death row inmate Randy Steidl is working with repeal supporters to make that happen. This month he’s traveling around the state and sharing his story with communities of faith, civic organizations, state lawmakers, and even fair-goers. “You can release a man from prison, but you can’t release him from the grave,” says Steidl, who was exonerated in 2004 after nearly 18 years of incarceration- 12 on death row, when an investigation revealed that police and prosecutorial misconduct led to his wrongful conviction.

Although Steidl was convicted in Illinois, finding errors in a capital case is not an unusual story in Kentucky. Of the 78 people that have been sentenced to death in the state since 1976, 50 have had their death sentence overturned- an error rate of more than 60 percent! A 2011 report by the American Bar Association that was compiled after a two-year review revealed “serious issues related to fairness and accuracy in the imposition of death sentences” in Kentucky and called for a temporary suspension of executions until those were addressed. A similar review was conducted in Tennessee in 2007 and found that out of 93 guidelines for a fair and accurate system, our state fully complied with only seven.

As more people learn about just how broken the system is, the momentum for repeal continues to grow. Six states in six years have ended the death penalty. Hopefully Kentucky can soon join that group, with many more to follow.

Photo of Randy Steidl via Floyd County Times

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