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Kansas should rethink death penalty

Quoted from the Wichita Eagle Sept. 13, 2007It's hard to imagine that any of the 89 Kansas lawmakers who voted in 1994 to revive the death penalty for the "the worst of the worst" criminals anticipated it would still be unused come 2007. Each year sends more men to Kansas' death row, nine in all currently, but the legal challenges to their sentences continue at a glacial pace. Then there is the cost to taxpayers, averaging $1.2 million each by one tally. At some point, given the legal problems and the lack of executions, a death penalty stops making sense for Kansas.In the early '90s, the average time between sentencing to execution nationally was eight years; now, it's 16 years. And Jeff Jackson, a law professor at Washburn University, recently predicted that Kansas' first execution since reinstatement of capital punishment could be another dozen years away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Death Penalty Focus on September 15, 2007 (boomark / email).