{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Supreme Court is weighing claims by the attorneys of death row inmate 40 year old Kevin Wayne Dunlap that a missing right front lobe of his brain played a role in his attack on a mother and her children near Fort Campbell in 2008. Dunlap, 40, was sentenced to death March 19, 2010. He pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing 5 year old Ethan Frensley, 17 year old Kayla Williams and 14 year old Kortney Frensley when they returned home from school on October 15, 2008, in Roaring Springs. Earlier in the day, Dunlap had tied up their mother, Kristy Frensley, then raped and attempted to stab her to death. Dunlap set the house on fire, but Kristy Frensley escaped by rolling out the back door. Attorneys told the high court Thursday that attorneys were not given enough time to explore what role the abnormality played in the crime and Dunlap's decision to plead guilty in 2010. Justices Mary Noble and Wil Schroeder expressed doubts that more testing would have affected the outcome of the case.
