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KCADP – Post Audit report gives more evidence as to why the Kansas death penalty should be ended
In the report, released December 19, 2003, the Division of Legislative Post Audit reported that the average cost of a death penalty case is 70% more than that of a non death penalty homicide case. This study compared the cost of a case taken to execution and a case taken to through decades of … [Read More...]
Kansas Officials Voice Concern about Cost of Death Penalty
* In her annual report on the activities of the Kansas Supreme Court, Chief Justice Kay McFarland said: "The Court also faces hearing three more death penalty appeals, which will severely strain our limited resources. So far only one such appeal has come through our Court since the reinstatement of … [Read More...]
Statement issued by KCADP following the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling in the Kleypas case
The experience of Kansas' use of the death penalty these past seven years shows that we are no different than other states. Today's court decision verifies what opponents of the death penalty have said in the past twenty plus years of death penalty debate in our state: Our criminal justice system … [Read More...]
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