Medical Parole Hearing Set In Deputy's Death

{Lexington, Kentucky}...Fifty-six year old William Bennett has an early medical parole hearing set for the week of November 28th after being sentenced to up to 120 years in prison for killing Fayette County Deputy 24 year old Joe Angelucci in 1988. A jury found Bennett guilty of murder but mentally ill in the death of Angelucci, who died three weeks after being shot. Bennett's sister, Carnetta Davis of Lexington, says her brother has been gravely ill since August, and Bennett, who was housed at the state reformatory near La Grange, is now shackled to a bed in a long-term care facility in Louisville, unable to move and unaware of his surroundings. Davis says her brother is in a coma, and the breathing machine is breathing for him. Jennifer Brislin, director of communications for the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, said Wednesday that she could not discuss Bennett's medical condition but that it met statutory requirements for an early medical parole hearing. Angelucci's parents, former Fayette Circuit Judge Armand Angelucci and his wife, Joyce, say Bennett should have to continue serving his sentence.