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Kansas Repeal Debate Today

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The Kansas Senate is scheduled to convene this afternoon at 2:30 pm (CDT) and Senate Bill 208 is on the calendar.  You should be able to listen to a webcast of the Senate debate at this LINK.  It also appears that the Wichita Eagle's government blog will live blog the proceedings."Death penalty debate in the Senate this afternoon," by Jeannine Koranda is on the Wichita Eagle government blog.The chamber convenes at 2:30 p.m. and the Senate Bill 208 is the only item set for discussion. The measure would abolish the death penalty for cases sentenced after July 1, 2009. Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, proposed the bill as a cost-saving measure. Supporters of abolishing the death penalty maintain that the cases are costly and do not deter crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).