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Kansas Legislation to Get Hearing

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"Bill to abolish death penalty will get legislative hearing," is the AP report via the Lawrence Journal-World.The state?s need to cut spending to prevent a budget deficit is a good argument for abolishing the death penalty to save money, Senate leaders said Monday. But they also said that they?re not sure how the argument will sell. The Senate Judiciary Committee plans hearings Thursday and Friday on a bill by Sen. Carolyn McGinn to abolish the death penalty starting July 1. Chairman Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, said the committee will vote on the bill either Friday or next week. The bill wouldn?t affect the 10 inmates already under sentence of death, nor would it apply to Justin Thurber, convicted in Cowley County of killing Jodi Sanderholm, a 19-year-old community college student, in 2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).