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The Kansas Abolition Debate

By Steve Hall

Today's Lawrence Journal-World reports, "Opponents of state's death penalty law mobilizing."  It's written by Shaun Hittle.As the Kansas Legislature gears up for a debate about ending the death penalty in the state, advocates from the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty are speaking out locally.Ben Coates, KCADP member and former director of the Kansas Sentencing Commission, addressed about 20 people Sunday at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Coates cited a variety of reasons why he supports a Senate bill that would prohibit executions in Kansas.?I think it?s purely wrong for the state to be in the business of taking human lives,? Coates said, citing his religious beliefs.But Coates, who has taught sociology and criminal justice at Washburn University for more than 40 years, said there are also other reasons to abolish the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2010 (boomark / email).