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Kansas to Take Up Capital Punishment Legislation Tuesday

By Steve Hall

"Senate Judiciary Committee to review death penalty proposal," is the title of Matthew Clark's report for the Morning Sun of Pittsburg, Kansas. The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee will review a proposal to repeal Kansas? death penalty law next week.Committee chairman Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, has scheduled four days of hearings, beginning Jan. 19, to hear testimony over the proposed bill. The state passed the death penalty law in 1994, making death by lethal injection the possible penalty for some murders. However, the state has not executed anyone under the provision since it was enacted. ?We had it last year and we had it for a day and it went to the floor,? Owens said. ?There were so many questions then, I asked the President of the Senate to send it back to committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).