Self-defense Is Legal in Kentucky

But then I thought it was. Grand jury doesn’t indict homeowner who shot burglar

According to dispatch records, the homeowner called police at 9:35 a.m. on May 11 to report that someone had broken into his residence in the 300 block of Wallace Avenue and was still inside. While talking to the dispatcher, the homeowner reported he fired one shot with a 9-mm pistol that hit the perpetrator, who was later identified as Stephen Smallwood, 35, of Georgetown.

He was taken first to a local hospital, and then to a universtity hospital, but he died from the gunshot wound.

Self-defense is a human-right.