Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice LAMBERT.

Once again this Court is faced with deciding an issue that arises from one of the most heinous and highly publicized murder cases in Kentucky’s recent history. Victor Taylor was convicted of the murder, kidnap, and robbery of two Trinity High School students as they were on their way to attend a high school football game. Taylor was also convicted of sodomizing one of the students. As a result, he received two death sentences for the murder convictions, two death sentences for the kidnapping convictions,1 and a total of sixty years imprisonment for…