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In Kansas

By Steve Hall

Today's Christian Science Monitor carries the editorial, "Switching off the death penalty: This month, Kansas considers dropping the death penalty. It should join the national trend and abandon capital punishment."This month, the Kansas Legislature is expected to begin hearings on a bill to repeal the death penalty. If the bill passes, Kansas will become the third state in three years to eliminate capital punishment ? another encouraging milestone on the way to ending this practice in America.Last March, New Mexico replaced the death penalty with a maximum sentence of life without parole, as did New Jersey in 2007. If Kansas follows, it will become the 16th state to forgo executions as a criminal justice tool.The nation has been pulling back from sanctioned killing as a punishment for heinous crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).