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Kansas Legislature to Consider Repeal in 2010

By Steve Hall

"Legislature to consider end to death penalty," is the title of Ron Sylvester's report for the Wichita Eagle, via the Kansas City Star.Kansas will consider abolishing the death penalty next year as death sentences are declining across the United States.Fewer people were sentenced to death this year than any other year since 1976, according to a report released Friday by the Death Penalty Information Center.The report cites 106 new death sentences handed down in 2009, compared to 111 in 2008. Both are down significantly from a decade ago, when 284 death sentences were given out. Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, has scheduled four days of hearings beginning Jan. 19 on a new bill that would eliminate the death penalty in Kansas.A Kansas Judicial Council advisory committee of lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers helped rewrite a bill sponsored last year by Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).