Marco Allen Chapman

Marco Allen Chapman was a convicted murderer who was the most recent person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was executed on November 21, 2008 at 8:34 p.m. EST by lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. Chapman was executed for a series of murders he committed on August 23, 2002 in Warsaw, Kentucky on Weldon Way, killing two children, Chelbi Sharon, 7, and Cody Sharon, 6, by stabbing after he had raped and stabbed their mother, Carolyn Marksberry, the city clerk of Warsaw at the time, over 15 times. 10-year-old Courtney Sharon played dead after she had also been stabbed by Chapman several times, and escaped.