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Kansas Senate Returns Repeal Bill to Committee

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"Kansas Senate sends death penalty bill back to committee," is Jeannine Koranda's report in today's Wichita Eagle.A bill to abolish the death penalty faces an uncertain future after three hours of Senate debate Monday. Senators sent the bill for further study over the summer. "I think there are a lot of people today that sat in this chamber that were undecided and we presented a lot of facts and I think people will be thinking about those facts over the course of the year," said Sen. Carolyn McGinn, who proposed eliminating the death penalty as a way to save money. "We'll see what happens over the course of the year -- if it comes back." McGinn, R-Sedgwick, said the debate and voice vote didn't give her a better feel for how senators stand on Senate Bill 208...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).