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Robert Woodall Kentucky Death Row

Robert Woodall was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a sexual assault and murder. According to court documents Robert Woodall would kidnap Sarah Hansen from the Minit Mark parking lot in Greenville, Kentucky. Robert Woodall would drive to a remote location where he would sexually assault and murder the victim. Robert Woodall would drown the victim. He would later be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Robert Woodall 2021 Information

Name:	WOODALL, ROBERT KEITH Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	228815 / 127513
Institution Start Date:	9/04/1998
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	DEATH SENTENCE
Classification:	Maximum
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	DEATH SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Location:	Kentucky State Penitentiary
Age:	47
Race:	White
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5′ 4 “
Weight:	257

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Woodall was sentenced to death on September 4, 1998 in Caldwell County for capital murder, capital kidnapping, and first degree rape. On January 25, 1997, Woodall abducted Sarah Hansen from the Minit Mark parking lot in Greenville, Kentucky. He then drove to Luzerne Lake where he proceeded to rape her. Woodall beat her and used a box-cutter knife to inflict cuts in Sarah Hansen’s throat. Her body was dragged and discarded into the water. Result of an autopsy revealed that water was found in Sarah Hansen’s lungs and reports that she died as a result of drowning.

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Robert Keith Woodall appeals from a sentence of death for murder and life imprisonment for the rape and kidnapping of Sarah Hansen. Woodall entered a plea of guilty to capital murder, capital kidnapping, and first-degree rape. A jury sentencing trial was conducted July 14 through July 20, 1998. The prosecution called eleven witnesses, and the defense presented fourteen witnesses in mitigation of the crimes. Woodall did not testify at the penalty proceedings. The jury fixed a sentence of death for the capital murder and a sentence of two concurrent life terms for the kidnapping and rape.

The victim was a 16-year-old high school cheerleader, an honor student, a musician, a member of the National Honor Society and the Beta Club and a medalist in swimming and diving. On January 25, 1997, she had planned to watch a video with her boyfriend. She went to the local mini-mart to rent a movie, leaving her home between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., never to be seen alive again by her family. At 10:42 p.m., two police officers were dispatched to search for the victim. Thereafter, they found the minivan that she had been driving in a ditch at Luzerne Lake, approximately 1.5 miles from the mini-mart. The officers followed a four to five hundred foot trail of blood on a gravel roadway from the van. The unclothed body of the victim was found floating in the water. Her throat had been slashed twice with each cut approximately 3.5 to 4 inches long. Her windpipe was totally severed. She actually died of drowning.

The police questioned Woodall when they learned that he had been in the mini-mart on Saturday night. He gave two conflicting statements about his activities on the night of the murder after he left work. The police observed that Woodall was wearing a brand of tennis shoe similar to the imprint on the pier next to where the body of the victim had been found. His fingerprints were on the van the victim was driving. Blood was found on his front door and muddy and wet clothing under his bed. Blood on his clothing and sweatshirt were consistent with the blood of the victim. The DNA on the vaginal swabs was consistent with his. His fingerprints were identified on the glass and door of the van as well as the interior doorjamb and handle. On March 18, 1997, the Muhlenberg County Grand Jury indicted him for murder, kidnapping and rape. One week later, the Commonwealth announced its intention to seek the death penalty. Venue for the prosecution was changed from Muhlenberg to Caldwell County because of massive publicity.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ky-supreme-court/1126472.html

Shawn Windsor Kentucky Death Row

Shawn Windsor was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for the murder of his wife and son. According to court documents Shawn Windsor would fatally stab his wife and his eight year old son. Shawn Windsor would plead guilty to the murders and demand the death penalty which he was later sentenced to.

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Shawn Windsor 2021 Information

Name:	WINDSOR, SHAWN Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	122076 / 182955
Institution Start Date:	10/06/2006
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	DEATH SENTENCE
Classification:	Maximum
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	DEATH SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Location:	Kentucky State Penitentiary
Age:	57
Race:	White
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	6′ 3 “
Weight:	300

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Windsor was sentenced to death on November 17, 2006. Windsor was convicted of Murder – 2 counts and Theft by Unlawful Taking over $300. On December 28, 2003, in Jefferson County, Windsor beat and stabbed his wife, Betty Jean Windsor, and 8-year old son, Corey Windsor. At the time of the murders, there was a valid domestic violence order in effect which ordered Shawn Windsor to remain at least 500 feet away from Betty Jean Windsor, and to commit no further acts of domestic violence. After killing his wife and son, he fled to Nashville, Tennessee in his wife’s car where he left it in a hospital parking garage. Nine months later, in July of 2004, Windsor was captured in North Carolina.

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A Kentucky death row inmate who admitted killing his estranged wife and son and asked for a death sentence is now fighting to stay alive.

Shawn Windsor, 45, asked the Kentucky Supreme Court in court papers released Wednesday to reverse his case and halt his execution, which has not been scheduled. The high court has scheduled oral arguments for Sept. 23 in Frankfort.

Windsor was sentenced to death in November 2006 to killing Betty Jean Windsor and their 8-year-old son, Corey, in December 2003, then fleeing to Shelby, N.C., where he was arrested seven months later at a junk yard where he worked.

Windsor declined an interview request from The Associated Press. His attorney, public defender Dan Goyette, did not immediately return messages.

Another of his attorneys, David Niehaus, wrote in Windsor’s briefs to the high court that he no longer wants to die.

“As the Court has certainly inferred by now, (Windsor) no longer desires to be put to death,” Niehaus wrote.

Shelley Catherine Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Attorney General’s office, declined to comment on Windsor’s case.

There are no solid statistics on the number of people who have volunteered, then changed their minds. However, 133 inmates have waived appeals and asked to die, said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment group that compiles statistics on executions. That accounts for about 12 percent of all executions.

Windsor’s attorneys cite multiple reasons the plea and sentence should be thrown out, including Windsor’s suicide attempt days before his plea. They also say Windsor should have had a second mental evaluation before he was sentenced because he said he wanted to die.

Assistant Attorney General Hays Lawson said in briefs there’s no evidence Windsor was incompetent at the time of his plea or sentencing.

“He demonstrated clear understanding of his rights and the rights he would be giving up by pleading guilty,” Lawson said.

Windsor became the second man in Kentucky in a three-year span to ask for a death sentence. Marco Allen Chapman pleaded guilty in December 2004 to killing two children and seriously wounding another along with their mother in an attack in northern Kentucky.

Chapman was executed in November 2008 and did not fight the sentence.

That case looms large over Windsor’s efforts. Prosecutors cited the Kentucky Supreme Court ruling in 2007 allowing Chapman to pursue his own execution, saying the opinion makes it clear that asking for a death sentence doesn’t show someone is incompetent.

Niehaus also addressed Chapman’s case, noting that unlike Chapman, Windsor has sought to regain appellate rights and has not repeatedly sought to fire his attorneys, as Chapman did.

Windsor’s journey to asking for a death sentence started when his wife and son were found beaten and stabbed in the apartment they shared. Windsor was nowhere to be found for the next seven months, with the disappearance drawing the attention of the television show “America’s Most Wanted.”

At one point during his November 2006 sentencing, Windsor asked Jefferson Circuit Judge Martin McDonald to stop his attorneys from trying to spare his life.

“I do not wish and I do not want this to go any further,” Windsor said. “It’s a waste of the court’s time.”

Along with Chapman, Kentucky has executed two inmates since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Harold McQueen of Madison County was put to death in the electric chair in 1997, and Eddie Lee Harper of Louisville became the first inmate to be executed by lethal injection in 1999.

https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/inmate-who-wanted-death-penalty-now-asks-to-live/article_b7e29165-5684-5fa9-909b-a92f8dc0ffd8.html

Mitchell Willoughby Kentucky Death Row

Mitchell Willoughby was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a triple murder. According to court documents Mitchell Willoughby and Leif Halvorsen would murder Jacqueline Greene, Joe Norman, and Joey Durham in Lexington, Kentucky. Mitchell Willoughby and Leif Halvorsen would attempt to dispose of the bodies by throwing them off a bridge. The two would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Leif Halvorsen death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2019

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Mitchell Willoughby 2021 Information

Name:	WILLOUGHBY, MITCHELL Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	201752 / 082148
Institution Start Date:	10/16/1979
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	DEATH SENTENCE
Classification:	Maximum
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	DEATH SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Location:	Kentucky State Penitentiary
Age:	62
Race:	White
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Red or Auburn
Height:	6′ 2 “
Weight:	243

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Willoughby was sentenced to death on September 15, 1983 in Fayette County for the participation in the murder of three people with Leif Halvorsen, also under the death sentence. On January 13, 1983, the two men shot to death Jacqueline Greene, Joe Norman, and Joey Durham in a Lexington, Kentucky department. That night they attempted to dispose of the bodies by throwing them from the Brooklyn Bridge in Jessamine County, Kentucky.

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A murderer who helped kill three people in a drug-fueled shooting rampage and who last year was taken off death row by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The parole board met Monday and gave Leif Halvorsen a “serve out,” which means he is set to serve out his life sentence.

Halvorsen was arrested in 1983 with Mitchell Willoughby and sentenced to death for killing three people in a Lexington home.

According to the Fayette County Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Halvorsen and Willoughby “executed” three teenagers.

These killers shot the female eight times in the back of the head,” the office said. “They shot the younger male five times — in the back, testicles, right arm, left leg, and right temple. They shot the other male three times — in the back, in the chest, and in the back of his neck.”

Behind bars, however, Halvorsen “transformed his life,” according to the American Bar Association, which said that the convict “earned two college degrees and serves as an advisor to young prison inmates who need guidance.”

Bevin, in his final days in office, took Halvorsen off death row.

He said, “Leif has a powerful voice that needs to be heard by more people.”

https://www.wdrb.com/news/triple-murderer-taken-off-death-row-by-former-gov-matt-bevin-to-serve-rest-of/article_a43e52f6-9971-11ea-b010-839a0c527d93.html

Larry White Kentucky Death Row

Larry White was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a sexual assault and murder. According to court documents Larry White would sexually assault and murder the victim Pamela Denise Armstrong. The victim was shot twice in the head. DNA would match Larry White to the crime scene. Larry White would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Larry White 2021 Information

Name:	WHITE, LARRY LAMONT Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	122556 / 202089
Institution Start Date:	7/25/2006
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	DEATH SENTENCE
Classification:	Maximum
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	DEATH SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Location:	Kentucky State Penitentiary
Age:	62
Race:	Black
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Black
Height:	5′ 7 “
Weight:	208

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White was sentenced to death on October 14, 2014 in Jefferson County for the murder and rape of Pamela Denise Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong’s body was found deceased in Jefferson County. She had been shot twice in the head with a .38 caliber weapon. It was also determined that she has been raped. During the initial investigation, White has been developed as a suspect. A sample of White’s DNA was obtained, and after comparison, was found to match the DNA samples that had been attained from the victim.

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Armstrong was murdered on June 4, 1983. Her body was discovered that same day in a public alley, with her pants and underwear pulled down around her legs and shirt pulled up to her bra line. She suffered from two gunshot wounds. One wound was observed on the left side of the back of her head, while the other wound was in virtually the same spot on the right side. The medical examiner was unable to determine which shot was fired first, but did opine that neither shot alone would have caused immediate death.

Although Appellant was originally a suspect, Armstrong’s murder remained unsolved for more than twenty years. Yet, in 2004, the Louisville Metro Police Department (“LMPD”) Cold Case Unit reopened Armstrong’s case. Through the use of DNA profiling, Detectives sought to eliminate suspects. LMPD officers were able to obtain Appellant’s DNA from a cigar he discarded during a traffic stop. Appellant’s DNA profile matched the DNA profile found in Armstrong’s panties.

On December 27, 2007, a Jefferson County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Appellant with rape in the first degree and murder. During the trial, DNA evidence and evidence of Appellant’s other murder convictions were introduced to the jury. On July 28, 2014, Appellant was found guilty of both charges. Appellant refused to participate during the sentencing stage of his trial. The jury ultimately found the existence of aggravating circumstances and recommended a sentence of death for Armstrong’s murder plus twenty years for her rape. The trial court sentenced Appellant in conformity with the jury’s recommendation. Appellant now appeals his conviction and sentence as a matter of right pursuant to § 110(2)(b) of the Kentucky Constitution and Kentucky Revised Statute (“KRS”) 532.075.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ky-supreme-court/1871982.html

Karu White Kentucky Death Row

Karu White was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a triple murder. Karu White and two accomplices would walk into a store where the proceeded to beat to death Charles Gross and Sam Chaney, and an elderly woman, Lula Gross. The trio would rob the store before fleeing. Karu White would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Karu White 2021 Information

Name:	WHITE, KARU GENE Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	204050 / 031945
Institution Start Date:	3/31/1980
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	DEATH SENTENCE
Classification:	Maximum
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	DEATH SENTENCE
Parole Eligibility Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	DEATH SENTENCE
Location:	Kentucky State Penitentiary
Age:	62
Race:	White
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5′ 10″
Weight:	135

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White was sentenced to death on March 29, 1980 in Powell County for the murder of three Breathitt County residents. On the evening of February 12, 1979 White and two accomplices entered a Haddix, Kentucky store operate by two elderly men, Charles Gross and Sam Chaney, and an elderly woman, Lula Gross. White and his accomplices bludgeoned to death the men and woman. They took a billfold containing $7,000, coins, and a handgun. White was arrested on July 27, 1979.

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Karu Gene White, his half-brother Thomas Bowling, and Charles Fisher were indicted for three counts of capital murder, three counts of first-degree robbery and one count of burglary. Fisher was fifteen years of age at the time of the commission of the crimes. Bowling was also a juvenile. White was an adult. Fisher was granted immunity and testified for the prosecution. Separate trials were ordered and White was tried first. A jury convicted White on all counts, and after the sentencing phase (KRS 532.025) the trial court in accordance with the recommendation of the jury imposed the death sentence for each of the three murders. Bowling was tried later and was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years.

The victims, Charles and Lula Gross, ages seventy-five and seventy-four, and Sam Chaney, seventy-nine, lived together and operated a small store in rural Breathitt County. (The case was tried in Powell County.) There was an abundance of circumstantial evidence linking White to the murders. Fisher’s testimony described in graphic detail the planning of the robbery by White and the gruesome account of the victims being beaten to death. The deputy coroner described the scene and conditions of the bodies. He testified that due to the extent of the injuries the victims were buried in disaster pouches.

During the course of the voir dire, White changed his defense to not guilty by reason of insanity or intoxication. He testified in his own behalf. During the course of his testimony, he stated that he took drugs, LSD being his favorite. On the day of the killings, he took LSD, he and Bowling met Fisher and he procured a tire tool from a parked truck to knock out the victims. (Fisher had testified that he had a wrench and that on the way to the store a tree limb was procured for Bowling.) White testified that he went into the store and saw the victims lying on the floor. He further testified that he did not hit anyone and did not mean to hurt anyone. He said when he forced open the side door of the store, he lost his memory. He denied hitting the victims, but said he must have.

Members of the family testified as to his mental problems, violent nature and bizarre habits.

https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/supreme-court/1984/671-s-w-2d-241-1.html