The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office announced a new effort to stop delays in the execution of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate, Karu Gene White.
On Wednesday, the attorney general’s office and Commonwealth’s Attorney Miranda King argued in Powell County Circuit Court to move White’s latest delay tactic to the active docket.
In 1979, White and two juveniles used a crowbar to beat a blind seventy-five-year-old, and two other seniors in what was described as a “horrific home invasion” in Breathitt County, the attorney general’s office said…