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- Western Kentucky focus of filmaker's documentary
A western Kentucky county that officials say lost much of its history to the Land Between the Lakes project will be featured in a television documentary next year that will focus on its vanishing past.
- Chapman Execution
The Execution of Marco Chapman Eddyville, Kentucky Reporter who witnessed Friday's execution of Kanawha County Native talks about it on MetroNews Talkline.
- Ask and You Shall Receive Child Killer Marco Allen Chapman...
Marco Allen Chapman, a confessed child killer requested that he be put to death and resisted all efforts of appeal for the crimes he committed in 2002.
- Killer of two young siblings is executed in Kentucky
EDDYVILLE, Ky. A- Marco Allen Chapman, who killed two children by slitting their throats after raping and stabbing their mother, was put to death Friday as he requested when an executioner pumped drugs into his ...
- After recent execution, push to outlaw death penalty continues
Despite the latest execution in Kentucky, those opposed to the death penalty say they will continue to try to get it outlawed.
- Chapman's Last Day
EDDYVILLE, Ky. a ' After being moved from deathwatch to the execution building at the Kentucky State Penitentiary Thursday, Marco Allen Chapman consumed his last breakfast including pancakes, sausage patties, ...
- Death-penalty foes meet across Ky. for protests
EDDYVILLE, Ky. - A dozen death-penalty opponents held a vigil outside the Kentucky State Penitentiary tonight as state officials executed confessed child killer Marco Allen Chapman.
- Chapman placed on death watch in preparation for execution
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is set to carry out its first execution since 1999 on Friday night.
- Cows escape near Eddyville
Cows are still being rounded up after getting loose from a farm in western Kentucky.
- Attorneys feel helpless against death wishes
John Delaney faced the toughest moment of his legal career - his condemned client wanted to drop his appeals and die by injection, an act Delaney opposed and had been trained to try to prevent.
- Execution remains on schedule after injunction denied
A Kentucky judge on Tuesday denied a request for an injunction that could have halted Friday's scheduled execution of a confessed child killer who has asked for lethal injection.
- Churches Plead For Clemency
With time running out, the Kentucky Council of Churches made another attempt on Monday to save death row inmate Marco Chapman's life.
- Hurdle cleared in Chapman execution
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A Franklin circuit judge ruled yesterday that a death-row inmate could fire the public defenders who have been trying to stop his scheduled execution next week.
- 2 escapees caught near Louisville
Tommy Southard and Jeremy Phelps had been at large since walking away from the detention center while on kitchen duty the evening of Oct.
- Top Ky. court clears way for child killer's death
In this May 5, 2008 file photo, death row inmate Marco Allen Chapman is interviewed at Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Ky.
- Conn formally sentenced to 45 years
Rowan County Circuit Judge William Mains agreed with a jury's recommendation to sentence 50-year-old James Kent Conn to 45 years behind bars for the Oct.
- Kentucky inmate charged with 1997 Lexington murder
A man serving time in the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville has been indicted on murder, rape, assault and other charges stemming from events that occurred when he was a juvenile.
- U.S. 62 bridge at Lake City, Ky., will be closed Sunday
The U.S. 62 bridge over the Cumberland River at Lake City, Ky., will be closed to all traffic for 24 hours beginning at 6 a.m. Sunday.
- Marlowe returns to court
A special judge gave attorneys until Oct. 3 in Harlan Circuit Court on Friday to come up with a plea offer in the Hugh Marlowe murder case from 1981.
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City DescriptionEddyville is a city in Lyon County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,350 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lyon County.
Eddyville, the seat of Lyon county, was settled around 1798 and named for the eddies in the nearby Cumberland River. It became the seat of Livingston county when it was formed in 1799, then the seat of Caldwell county in 1809, and finally the seat of Lyon county when it was formed in 1854. The Eddyville post office opened in 1801.
Throughout Kentucky, Eddyville is best known as a synonym for the Kentucky State Penitentiary, although the prison itself is actually 5 km south of the present town, on the shore of Lake Barkley in Old Eddyville on KY 730. Taking six years to build (1884 - 1890), the massive stone prison structure towers over Lake Barkley, and is sometimes called "The Castle on the Cumberland." Its electric chair has had a long history of use, with its use dating to the period before 1936 when public executions were still conducted in Kentucky for punishment for some crimes (e.g., rape, see for example Rainey Bethea), with electrocutions at Eddyville being strictly reserved for capital punishment for conviction of other crimes ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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