Beshear signs bills to appropriate federal relief money
BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press
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1of12Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks to reporters following the signing of bills related to the American Rescue Plan Act at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 7, 2021.Timothy D. Easley/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of12Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear speaks to reporters before the signing of bills related to the American Rescue Plan Act at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 7, 2021.Timothy D. Easley/APShow MoreShow Less
Why Kentucky Just Became the Only Red State to Expand Voting Rights
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April 7, 2021, 11:56 AM·8 min read
A polling station during the primary election in Louisville, Ky., on June 23, 2020. (Erik Branch/The New York Times)
Jennifer Decker has solid conservative credentials. A first-term Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who used to work for Sen. Rand Paul, she represents a county that voted for Donald Trump last year by nearly 30 percentage points.
Yet at a time when many of her Republican counterparts around the country are racing to pass stringent new restrictions on voting fueled in part by Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election Decker’s first major bill swerved.
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Prosecutors say they will use the new law to try Cane Madden, a habitual violent offender deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial for the rape of an 8-year-old girl.
A new law passed last week in the waning hours of the Kentucky legislative sessions closes a controversial loophole that has allowed some mentally ill defendants accused of violent and horrific crimes to repeatedly walk free.
Prosecutors say they plan to use recently enacted legislation to try Cane Madden, a 30-year-old habitual offender, who was deemed mentally incompetent last month to stand trial for the 2019 rape of an 8-year-old girl who was severely injured during an attack in which her head was bashed in with a shovel.