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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

Roger Wheeler Kentucky Death Row

Roger Wheeler was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a double murder. According to court documents Roger Wheeler who was on parole for a series of robberies would stab the two victims to death inside of their home. Nigel Malone and Nairobi Warfield were stabbed using a pair of scissors. Nairobi was pregnant at the time. Roger Wheeler would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Roger Wheeler 2021 Information

Name:	WHEELER, ROGER LAMAR Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	13416 / 108442
Institution Start Date:	11/18/1991
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:	60
Race:	Black
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Black
Height:	5′ 9 “
Weight:	195

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While on parole for 10 counts of robbery I, Wheeler killed Nigel Malone and Nairobi Warfield. Both of the victims were stabbed multiple times. When detectives arrived at the scene they discovered the murder weapon, a pair of scissor, still in the neck of one of the victims and a blood trail leading from the victims to the street. Blood samples collected at the scene matched Wheeler’s blood.

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On the morning of October 2, 1997, the bodies of Nigel Malone and Nairobi Warfield were discovered inside the apartment they shared in Louisville, Kentucky. Malone was discovered laying in a pool of blood in the hallway of the apartment. He had been stabbed nine times. Warfield was found in a bedroom, leaning against a wall and covered with a blanket, with a pair of scissors protruding from her neck. She had been beaten and strangled to death. An autopsy later revealed that she was pregnant.

Wheeler became a suspect just hours after the bodies were discovered. He initially claimed that he did not visit Malone and Warfield’s apartment the night of the murders. However, after DNA testing of blood swabs recovered at the murder scene confirmed the presence of Wheeler’s blood on the bedroom sheets, bedroom telephone, and thigh of Nairobi Warfield, Wheeler changed his story. At trial, he testified that he went to the apartment to deliver crack cocaine and was attacked by the real murderer, a man dressed in Army fatigues and wearing a Halloween mask.

The jury rejected Wheeler’s story. He was found guilty of two counts of intentional murder and sentenced to death. Wheeler took a direct appeal as a matter of right to the Supreme Court of Kentucky where he raised 28 issues for review. The Kentucky Supreme Court entered a final opinion that affirmed Wheeler’s conviction and death sentence on December 18, 2003. See Wheeler v. Commonwealth, 121 S.W.3d 173 (Ky. 2003).

https://casetext.com/case/wheeler-v-simpson

William Thompson Kentucky Death Row

William Thompson was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for the murder of a prison guard. According to court documents William Thompson was serving a life sentence for a contract killing at Western Kentucky Farm Center in Graves County on March 18, 1998 when he would strike Correctional Guard Fred Cash repeatedly with a hammer causing his death. William Thompson would be convicted and sentenced to death.

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William Thompson 2021 Information

Name:	THOMPSON, WILLIAM EUGENE Active Inmate DEATH ROW
PID # / DOC #:	211826 / 091746
Institution Start Date:	1/23/1984
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:	69
Race:	White
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Green
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5′ 10″
Weight:	167

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Thompson was sentenced to death on March 18, 1998 in Graves County. Thompson entered a plea of guilty on January 12, 1995, to the following charges: capital murder, robbery in the 1st degree, and escape in the 1st degree, which occurred on May 9, 1986. Thompson, of Pike County, Kentucky, was sentenced to life for the 1986 murder of Correctional Officer Fred Cash at the Western Kentucky Farm Center in Graves County on March 18, 1998. Thompson was currently serving a life sentence at the Western Kentucky Farm Center for the offense of willful murder for hire in Pike County. While working with an inmate crew at the dairy, Thompson struck Correction Officer Fred Cash repeatedly in the head with a hammer, dragged the body into a barn stall, and fled n the prison farm van. Police arrested Thompson in a bus station on his way to Indiana. Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death in October 1986 in Lyon County, but seven years later the state Supreme Court threw out the conviction and ordered a new trial. Thompson also won a change of venue from Lyon County to Graves County.

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In 1986, Thompson, having served 12 years of a life sentence for an unrelated murder for hire, killed his prison-farm supervisor, stole his possessions, and fled. Thompson was captured and convicted of murder, robbery, and escape. Thompson was granted a retrial on direct appeal, then pleaded guilty to all three counts to avoid jury sentencing. A state court held that Commonwealth was entitled to jury sentencing despite the plea agreement. The jury returned a death-penalty verdict. In state post-conviction proceedings, Thompson succeeded on his claim that the trial court had failed to hold a mandatory competency hearing but was unsuccessful on his other claims for relief. After the trial court held the required competency hearing and found that Thompson had been competent to plead guilty, the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Thompson’s convictions and sentences. The Sixth Circuit affirmed denial of Thompson’s federal habeas corpus petition raising claims that the jury improperly considered extraneous evidence when it discussed a news account about another violent criminal who had committed a murder after earning parole at age 70; that jury instructions violated the Supreme Court’s 1988 holding, Mills v. Maryland, because they stated that the “verdict” had to be returned unanimously but did not expressly state that unanimity was not required for a juror to find a mitigating factor; and the Kentucky Supreme Court did not adequately conduct a comparative-proportionality review in assessing whether Thompson’s death sentence was excessive or disproportionate.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/13-6085/13-6085-2017-08-14.html

Victor Taylor Kentucky Death Row

Victor Taylor was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for a double murder. According to court documents Victor Taylor was responsible for what is known as the Trinity Murders. Victor Taylor would kidnap two students from Trinity High School. The two victims, Dewayne Taylor and George Ellis Wade, were brought to a vacant load where one of the students was sexually assaulted before the pair were fatally shot. Victor Taylor would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Victor Taylor 2021 Information

Name:	TAYLOR, VICTOR DEWAYNE Active Inmate DEATH ROW	Offender Photo(Click image to enlarge)
PID # / DOC #:	205240 / 083648
Institution Start Date:	6/16/1980
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:	60
Race:	Black
Gender:	M
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Black
Height:	5′ 10″
Weight:	179

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Taylor was sentenced to death on May 23, 1986 in Jefferson County for kidnapping, robbery, sodomy, and murder. On September 29, 1984, Taylor and another man kidnapped at gunpoint two high school students, Scott Nelson and Richard Stephenson, in Louisville, Kentucky. The men took the boys to a vacant

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Taylor and codefendant George Wade were charged with the murders, kidnapping and robbery of two high school students. The prosecution presented evidence in the form of a statement by Wade which indicated that he and Taylor kidnapped and robbed the two students who had gotten lost on their way to a football game. The young men had stopped at a fast food restaurant to ask directions when they were confronted by Taylor and Wade. Other witnesses indicated that Taylor had a *74 gun and forced the victims to get into their car and drive away. Wade in his statement said that he and Taylor robbed the boys and that he had removed both boys trousers, bound their ankles and gagged them in a Louisville alley. Wade’s statement was that Taylor decided to kill the two victims because he was afraid they would identify them. Wade said he waited on a nearby street while Taylor shot both boys in the head.

Upon a change of venue both Taylor and Wade were tried in Lexington. Wade was tried separately and found guilty of two counts of murder, kidnapping, first-degree robbery, but was acquitted of sodomy. The jury recommended sentences of fifteen years on the robbery, twenty-two years on the kidnapping and life imprisonment on the murders. All sentences were to run concurrently, and Wade was sentenced to a total of life imprisonment.

At Taylor’s trial Wade, who was tried first, cited his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and refused to testify. His edited confession was admitted against Taylor.

https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/supreme-court/1991/86-sc-481-mr-1.html