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Kansas Pretends Its Capital Punishment System Is Working

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a column in today's Kansas City Star by Mike Hendricks.  LINK The macabre open house was held specially for the media.Photographers shot pictures for their files as reporters scribbled notes.On where the 13 witnesses would sit. On how the curtains would open in the observation rooms.On what the process would be when the first condemned man was led into the new suite of rooms on the fourth floor at the Lansing Correctional Facility.And how, in daytime, the sunlight streaming through the glass block wall cast a soft glow on the gurney where the state of Kansas would carry out its first execution by lethal injection.That was eight years ago. Soon after the crowd dispersed, authorities closed the new death chamber as one would a time capsule...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).