Wichita ? A legislative committee refused to reimburse convicted murderer Jonathan Carr after a guard’s mistake resulted in another inmate trashing his prison cell.

Jonathan Carr and his brother, Reginald, were sentenced to death in December 2002 for kidnapping five people from a Wichita home two years earlier and forcing them to have sex with one another before fatally shooting four of them execution-style on a soccer field. Although shot in the head, one of the friends survived and ran naked through the snow to seek help.

The Carrs were convicted of killing Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander and Heather Muller on Dec. 15, 2000. The brothers also were convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a woman who was shot four days before the soccer field slayings.

“The heinousness of his crimes, the lack of remorse at his sentencing – I don’t think he could ever repay his debt to society,” Rep. Dale Swenson, R-Wichita, said Tuesday after the hearing in Topeka.

Jonathan Carr filed a claim in August seeking $499 that he alleged he was owed after an officer escorting inmates to and from showers put another inmate into his cell on Oct. 1, 2004. Carr claims the inmate destroyed clothes, food, personal hygiene products, two books of stamps, a hot pot, his copies of three law books and – the most expensive item – eyeglasses.

Carr submitted a $266 bill for an eye exam, frames, lenses and scratch-resistant coating. Corrections officials offered to provide $52 state-issued glasses.

But the Special Committee on Claims Against the State rejected his claim and the $52 that the Department of Corrections recommended he be paid.

Sen. Phil Journey, R-Haysville, chairman of the committee, said it was “certainly a difficult situation because of the nature of the crime.”