White v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM

This is a death penalty case where the Appellant, Karu Gene White (“White”), raises a post-conviction intellectual disability claim.1 For the reasons stated herein, we remand this case to the trial court to order the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center (“KCPC”) to perform a psychological evaluation of Mr. White.

Factual and Procedural Background

In 1980, White was convicted by a Powell Circuit Court jury of three counts of capital murder, three counts of first-degree robbery, and one count of burglary. He was sentenced to death for each of the three…