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Make a Difference: Join the Journey to End the Death Penalty November 2nd

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All Roads Lead to Manhattan on November 2nd

Kansas Governor John Carlin "Make a Difference: Join the Journey to End the Death Penalty" is the title of the 2019 KCADP Annual Meeting and Abolition Conference. It will be held on Saturday November 2nd from 1 to 4 p.m. at the KSU Union, Bluemont Room. Keynote speaker is former Governor John Carlin. During his tenure as Governor, he faced the question of death penalty reinstatement legislation four times. Each time, he vetoed the bill and kept Kansas death penalty free. He will … [Read More...]

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Make a Difference: Join the Journey to End the Death Penalty November 2nd

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All Roads Lead to Manhattan on November 2nd

Kansas Governor John Carlin "Make a Difference: Join the Journey to End the Death Penalty" is the title of the 2019 KCADP Annual Meeting and Abolition Conference. It will be held on Saturday November 2nd from 1 to 4 p.m. at the KSU Union, Bluemont Room. Keynote speaker is former Governor … [Read More...]

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“The death penalty has no place in Kansas”

2018 Abolition Conference panelists:  (left to right)  Bob Weeks, Floyd Bledsoe, Richard Ney   “The Kansas criminal justice system is too imperfect to trust it with the death penalty.  I know from spending over 16 years in a Kansas prison for a murder I didn’t commit until DNA … [Read More...]

Murder: It doesn’t have to end with another death

In 1994 when the Legislature was debating the reinstatement of the Kansas death penalty, proponents kept saying the tragedy of murder had to lead to another death via execution.  Murder victim family member Bill Lucero visited legislators and told them that it did not need to end that way.  He … [Read More...]