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Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Abolition Legislation

By Steve Hall

"Kansas Senate panel endorses measure to repeal state death penalty," is the title of the initial AP report via the Lawrence Journal-World.A Senate panel has endorsed a bill to repeal the Kansas death penalty, saying it?s a debate that legislators must conduct. The 7-to-4 vote Friday by the Judiciary Committee would repeal the 1994 law and replace it with a new crime of aggravated murder, punishable by life in prison without parole.Debate by the full Senate is expected in early February. The action comes 103 years after Gov. Edward Hoch signed a law repealing Kansas death penalty because it was seldom used.The bill would not apply to the 10 men currently under death sentences in Kansas, but would not allow any more defendants to be charged with capital murder after July 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).