CADIZ, Ky. — The man convicted and sentenced to death for the 2008 murders of three children and the attempted murder of their mother has died. According to WKDZ Radio, Kevin Wayne Dunlap, 51, died Sunday at the University of Louisville Hospital after he was taken there from Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville.

Marco Allen Chapman was the last person executed by the state. He was executed via lethal injection in 2008 after he murdered two children and raped their mother. In 2022, the GOP-dominated Kentucky state legislature banned the death penalty for those with certain mental disorders. The bill received bipartisan support.