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The Kansas Death Penalty Debate

By Steve Hall

Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee began consideration of legislation to repeal the death penalty.  Testimony will continue, for an hour a day, this week."Kansas Senate again looks at abolishing state?s death penalty," is the title of David Klepper's report for today's Kansas City Star.The Kansas Senate is again looking at abolishing the state?s death penalty, unused since 1965.But some lawmakers said they did not expect a repeal any time soon. Even though debating the death penalty has become an almost annual tradition in the Senate, opponents to capital punishment still face long odds.The proposal before lawmakers this year would prohibit capital punishment for any crimes after July 1; crimes committed before that could still warrant execution, so the 10 men now on death row could still be put to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).