Inmates on Kentucky’s death row: 39
Year the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment: 1976
Inmates executed in Kentucky since death penalty was reinstated: 2
Harold McQueen: executed by electrocution in 1997 for killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery in Richmond
Edward Lee Harper: executed by lethal injection in 1999 for shooting his parents to death to inherit insurance money
Inmates executed nationwide over past three decades: 1,119
Death row inmates exonerated and released nationwide: 129
Death row exonerations in Kentucky: 1
Larry Osborne: spent two years on death row in Kentucky before being retried and found innocent in 2002
States with the death penalty: 36
Predominant means of execution: lethal injection
Facts provided by the Death Penalty Information Center