- Statehouse Live: Kansas opponents of death penalty tout Illinois repeal
- March 9, 2011
- House Bill 2323, which would repeal the Kansas death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, is currently in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
- Man suspected of murdering Great Bend teen challenges Kansas death penalty
- January 22, 2011
- The man accused of killing a teenager whose charred body was found at the Great Bend asphalt plant has challenged the constitutionality of the Kansas death penalty.
- Exonerated prisoner seeks end of death penalty
- August 20, 2010
- The criminal justice system makes mistakes.
- Showing of documentary film on death penalty planned Aug. 19 at Lawrence Arts Center
- August 9, 2010
- The ACLU and the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty will host the documentary film “No Tomorrow” at 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.
- Appeals keep executions a long way off
- March 1, 2010
- Kansas legislators recently completed an exhaustive review of the death penalty that resulted in a 20-20 vote in the Senate that left capital punishment on the books.
- Bill to abolish the death penalty fails in Kansas Senate
- 08:15 a.m., February 19, 2010 Updated 05:42 p.m.
- Since 1994 when capital punishment was re-instated in Kansas, 10 men have been sentenced to die, but no executions have occurred.
- Senate majority leader still hasn’t scheduled debate on repeal of death penalty
- February 16, 2010
- A bill repealing Kansas’ death penalty law remains stalled in the Senate.
- Bill to abolish the death penalty may remain bottled up
- 03:24 p.m., February 12, 2010 Updated 03:24 p.m.
- Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt, R-Independence, says he doesn’t know when or if the bill, which was approved last month by the Senate Judiciary Committee, will be considered.
- Opponents of state’s death penalty law mobilizing
- February 1, 2010
- 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.
- Kansas Senate panel endorses measure to repeal state death penalty
- 10:51 a.m., January 29, 2010 Updated 02:21 p.m.
- A Senate panel endorsed a bill Friday to repeal the Kansas death penalty, saying it’s a debate that legislators must conduct.
- Kansas Legislature poised to take up death penalty repeal
- January 29, 2010
- Legislation to repeal the Kansas death penalty law was awaiting possible action by a Senate committee Friday.
- Statehouse Live: Death penalty repeal hearing starts
- 10:03 a.m., January 19, 2010 Updated 10:27 a.m.
- Three-day meeting to look at proposals to get rid of capital punishment
- Legislative panel to review death penalty
- January 19, 2010
- Legislators are planning to give the Kansas death penalty statute a deeper look this week, focusing on growing concerns about the financial burden for capital punishment litigation.
- Panel to review Kansas’ death penalty law
- January 18, 2010
- Legislators have scheduled hearings this week to review the cost and effectiveness of Kansas’ death penalty law.
- Lawmakers will take up review of death penalty in Kansas
- January 11, 2010
- A proposal to repeal Kansas’ death penalty law will be reviewed by a Senate committee next week.
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