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Kansas Legislative Hearing Continues

By Steve Hall

Today's Wichita Eagle reports, "Victims' families argue to keep death penalty."  It's written by Jeannine Koranda. The state?s death penalty should be retained as justice for victims of killers like the Carr brothers and Justin Thurber, lawmakers heard Thursday. ?You cannot put a price tag on my sister?s life,? Jennifer Sanderholm told the Senate Judiciary Committee. ?That is ultimately what you will do if you abolish the death penalty.?Thurber raped, sodomized and murdered 19-year-old Jodi Sanderholm of Arkansas City in January 2007. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection a little more than two years later. And: Supporters of the death penalty said it is used sparingly ? only for the most egregious crimes ?and shouldn?t be weighed in terms of cost...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).