Kentucky’s first execution by lethal injection took place on May 25th, 1999, when Eddie Lee Harper was put to death for the shooting murder of his adoptive parents, Alice and Edward Lee Harper Snr. as they slept at their home in Valley Station, Jefferson County February 19. 1982. Harper was evaluated by a psychiatrist before trial and found competent to stand trial.
Marco Allan Chapman is presently the last person to be executed in Kentucky. He was put to death by lethal injection at Eddyville shortly after 8 p.m. EST on November 21, 2008, at his insistence.
Gregory Wilson (born in Ohio in November 1956) was sentenced to death by electrocution in Kenton County, on October 31, 1988, for kidnapping and murdering Deborah Pooley on May 29, 1987.
Beoria Simmons (born 5/17/1954) was a Jefferson County social worker in Louisville who decided that the city needed cleansing of women who he suspected of being prostitutes. To this end, he abducted, raped and shot three white women in between 1981 and 1983.