On November 20, 2004, Stanley Elms, convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of Regina Gray, was re-sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 40 years. Elms was originally sentenced to die and spent the intervening years on death row, but his sentenced was affected by the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling in the Kleypas case which would have called for a … [Read more...] about Elms's Death Sentence Gone, Now Sentenced to Hard 40
Archives for November 2005
Bill Kurtis at KCADP Annual Meeting
"The death penalty should be off the table," says Kurtis. As a law student at Washburn in the 1960's, Bill Kurtis supported the death penalty. He "believed in the system" and thought that it would be infallible when death was a possible punishment. On November 11, 2006, he told a crowd of 250 people at his alma mater that he now believes differently. "Because of too many … [Read more...] about Bill Kurtis at KCADP Annual Meeting