FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 28, 2026)-- This past week Attorney General Russell Coleman joined WKYT's Bill Bryant on the latest edition of 'Kentucky Newsmakers.' General Coleman discussed the Office's efforts in combatting robocalls, a recent settlement with 23andMe, and continued efforts to resume the lawful imposition of the death penalty in Kentucky.
Reinstating the death penalty, and seeking it for Berea bank shooter
"It's my job to enforce the law, and spending time with these families who have lost loved ones, spending time with those that really feel justice delayed is justice denied. I am Attorney General, my job is to enforce the law and we are seeking to do just that.
"I think it's the law in our Commonwealth and as long as I am the Attorney General, I have a duty to seek it. I know that when that ultimate penalty, the death penalty is not applied, that the expectation of those families who have lost their loved ones, that there is a lack of healing. We have a duty to enforce the law and provide justice for those families."
Cracking down on Robocalls
"We say Americans get millions of them, but the first six months of this year in the Commonwealth (there were) 320 million in Kentucky alone and everyone of those is potential fraud.
"Robocalls sound benign, but this is attempted fraud, this is the tolls scam, the voting scam that we're seeing and so it is profitable. You go to where the money is.
"We're going to continue to tighten down; working with the FCC to do a better job in deterring them."
Settlement with 23andMe
"There are many things we have built into these settlements in addition to the money itself to try and make some of these consumers whole, to be able to scrub the data, to be able to make sure that data is not being used by fraudsters.
"There is a duty these companies have to protect this sensitive data."
Watch the full interview here.