Definitions for KRS 431.213, 431.2135, and 431.240
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Bowling v. Commonwealth (2005)
Most recently applied in 671 F. Supp. 2d 840 - Billiot v. Epps (November 2009)
Effective: July 15, 1998 History: Created 1998 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in KRS 431.2135 and 431.240:
(1) "Condemned person" means a person for whom a specific day of execution is fixed by a mandate from the Kentucky Supreme Court or a warrant signed by the Governor.
(2) "Insane" means the condemned person does not have the ability to understand:
(a) That the person is about to be executed; and (b) Why the person is to be executed.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.