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Kansas death penalty debate impacted by capital killers already on the row

By Douglas A. Berman

This article from the Topeka Capital Journal, which is headlined "Death penalty repeal on tap," details some of the ways in which a debate over repealing the death penalty in Kansas is being impacted by a couple defendants already condemned to death: The Senate is preparing for an extraordinary debate today on a bill that may render capital punishment in Kansas a casualty of financial austerity, appellate fatigue and moral outrage. Countering those weighty forces of change will be the legacy of mayhem left by 10 men who have drawn the state?s ultimate sanction since reimposition of the death penalty in 1994.  The leading edge of arguments by defenders of the death penalty will be the depraved saga of murder, torture, rape and robbery that catapulted Reginald and Jonathan Carr to death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).