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Kansas Senate Rejects Repeal in Tie Vote

By Steve Hall

Friday afternoon the Kansas Senate voted against repealing it's capital punishment law by the narrowest possible margin -- a tie vote."Senate rejects bill abolishing Kan. death penalty," was the title of John Milburn's AP report, from the Alva Review-Courier.Senators rejected a bill to repeal Kansas' death penalty after a marathon debate Friday that was frequently as much about theology as crime and punishment.The vote was 20-20, meaning the bill failed to get the required votes to send it to the House, which hasn't considered the issue all session. Senators said the repeal movement was over for the year.The debate lasted nearly four hours. Several senators mentioned that the Kansas bishops of four Christian denominations had written a letter urging repeal of the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).