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Kansas Looks at Capital Punishment Costs

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"Spectre of death penalty hangs around budget," is Eric Swanson's report in the Dodge City Daily Globe.The state's budget woes could help convince Kansas lawmakers to take a serious look at eliminating the death penalty this year, the Kansas representative for a national anti-death penalty group said Friday."We've tried to abolish it every year ever since it's been enacted in 1994, but we feel like this is one of our best bets," said Bill Lucero of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation.Lucero was referring to Senate Bill 208, which would eliminate the death penalty after July 1, 2009, if it becomes law this year. Without the death penalty, the state's maximum sentence would be life in prison with no chance of parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).