Thursday, August 26, 2010
Death Row Inmate Seeks Mental Exam
KENTUCKY....
Fifty-one year old Karu Gene White, the state's longest-serving death row inmate, had sought to use $5,000 in taxpayer funds to hire a doctor to determine if he's mentally retarded and ineligible for lethal injection. Special Judge Gary D. Payne rejected that request and ordered the exam be done at the state facility. The Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that he could be sent to the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center for an exam to see if he's mentally retarded. White was sentenced to death in 1980 in Powell County for the murders of three people. Prosecutors said White and two companions robbed a store in 1979 and bludgeoned to death Charles Gross, his wife Lula Gross and Sam Chaney, three Breathitt County residents.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 1:09 PM 
