By Associated Press
Lexington, KY – The Kentucky Parole Board has deferred for 10 years parole for a woman convicted of killing five people in Lexington in the 1980s.
The full parole board on Monday cited the seriousness and violent nature of the crime, the fact that a life was taken and the use of drugs and alcohol by Tina Marie Hickey Powell in declining to grant her request for a shortened sentence or release.
Powell, who is 52, made her first appearance before the Kentucky Parole Board earlier this month. A two-member panel bound the case over to the full parole board.
Powell and 47-year-old LaFonda Fay Foster were convicted in 1987 of five counts of murder in the deaths.
All five were stabbed and shot on April 23, 1986.