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    Kansas Capital Punishment News

    Appeals keep executions a long way off

    Topeka — 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.

    But an actual execution in Kansas of someone on Death Row won’t happen for years, if ever.

    “It’s impossible to determine” when an execution will be carried out, said Rebecca Woodman, who is an attorney with the Capital Appellate Defender Office for the State Board of Indigents’ Defense Services. “It could be years. It could be never,” she said.

    Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. Since then, 12 men have been sentenced to death. Of those, one sentence was removed at the request of the district attorney, two have had their sentences vacated by the Kansas Supreme Court and others remain in the early stages of appeals.

    The appeals process in death penalty cases is greater than any other.

    A death sentence triggers a mandatory review by the Kansas Supreme Court. After that there are other avenues of review, and then there are appeals before the federal judiciary, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    For example, the first man sentenced to death in Kansas after reinstatement of the penalty was Gary Kleypas, who was convicted in 1997 of the rape and slaying of Pittsburg State University student Carrie Williams.

    His death sentence was overturned in 2001 after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that jury instructions were faulty. His sentencing case didn’t happen until 2008 when a jury once again recommended the death penalty.

    The seven years between the high court ruling in the Kleypas case and another sentencing trial occurred because of another death penalty case — that of Michael Marsh.

    In that case, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty law because of its requirement that when a jury considering capital punishment finds pro and con factors to be equal, it must choose the death penalty. In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Kansas Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote.

    Now, the Kleypas case is on direct appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court. Woodman said it may be years before the court considers the case because of other death penalty cases that have since been put in the pipeline.

    Despite the lengthy process, Kansas Attorney General Steve Six supports the death penalty.

    “Death penalty litigation should be viewed as a marathon and not a sprint,” Six said. “Families of victims, prosecutors and law enforcement officers understand how important this statute is to our criminal justice system. Some crimes are just too heinous and cruel to receive a lesser sentence

    http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/mar/01/appeals-keep-executions-long-way/

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    Kansas House Introduces Bill to Abolish the Death Penalty

    TOPEKA -- The Kansas House of Representatives introduced HB 2323, a bill to abolish the state’s death penalty. The House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee sponsored the bill.
    HB 2323 will replace the Kansas death penalty with life in prison without parole as the sentence for the crime of aggravated murder.

    “This legislation will enable Kansas law enforcement officials to use the existing sentence of life without parole to hold offenders accountable for their crimes and protect the public safety without the unacceptable risk of executing an innocent person,” said Donna Schneweis, the Board Chair of the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

    In Kansas capital cases to date, there have been well documented errors, including judicial error, jury misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, withheld evidence, jury instruction issues and ineffective assistance of counsel. The Kansas Supreme Court has vacated three death sentences due to such errors.

    “The death penalty is rife with problems beyond those in the court room,” said Carolyn Zimmerman, of Topeka, whose father was murdered in January 1969.

    “The death penalty continues to impact the victims’ families long after a crime has occurred. A capital trial only prolongs a family’s pain and trauma, and rarely brings the closure families long for,” said Zimmerman.

    Last year, the Kansas Senate nearly voted to abolish the death penalty. The legislation failed on a 20-20 vote.

    “States across the country are recognizing the flaws of the death penalty. This legislation is the next step to ending this broken, inconsistent policy in Kansas,” said Schneweis.

    http://www.wibw.com/politics/headlin...115986009.html

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    Kan. AG's office defends death penalty after challenge posed in Great Bend teen's killing case

    Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office is defending the constitutionality of the state's death penalty law from a challenge raised in the case against the Great Bend man accused of killing a teenager whose charred body was found at an asphalt plant.

    In preparation for a hearing Tuesday in Great Bend, state prosecutors filed their written responses late Friday afternoon to the death penalty challenge and other motions the defense had mostly filed in January. The move came after questions were raised as to why no written responses to the defense motions had yet been made despite Barton County Judge Hannelore Kitt's standing order requiring the state to do so in the death penalty case against Adam Joseph Longoria.

    "I think we are in compliance," Deputy Attorney General Victor Braden said after the filings. "We are ready for Tuesday and we will see how it goes."

    Longoria faces capital murder and criminal sodomy charges in the August killing of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

    The attorneys with the Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit who represent Longoria, Jeffrey Wicks and Tim Frieden, did not return a message left at their office Friday seeking comment.

    Death penalty prosecutions are handled in two phases. First is the trial to determine whether a suspect is guilty. If convicted, the next step is a penalty phase to determine whether the crime warrants the death sentence. In the second phase, jurors consider aggravating factors such as whether a killing was especially heinous and mitigating factors such as whether a defendant lacked a previous significant criminal record.

    Longoria's defense has argued the death penalty in the state is unconstitutional because so-called relaxed evidentiary standards allow the government too much leeway in the type of evidence they can present for aggravating factors. The defense also separately challenged the law on the basis that death penalty verdicts are ambiguous and unreliable since they do not require the jury to disclose the considerations that motivated the death sentence and what weight jurors gave to any mitigating evidence.

    Defense attorneys also noted the death penalty has been upheld by the Kansas Supreme Court and acknowledged they were filing the request to preserve the issue for future appeals.

    The state's responses were faxed to Great Bend so late on Friday that they were not available on the court's website. Braden declined to email the documents, citing a previous court order that had set up the website for public access.

    Ron Keefover, chief information officer with the Office of Judicial Administration, told the AP that statutorily in Kansas written responses are due within five days of a motion's filing, although parties are not required to file responses. Keefover, the media liaison for the Great Bend case, acknowledged that in the Longoria case the judge specifically ordered prosecutors to file written responses to all defense motions.

    Braden disputed that there was any such five-day response requirement, insisting he could have hand-carried his written motions to court on Tuesday had he wanted to do so.

    The death penalty case against Longoria was filed by former Attorney General Steve Six, who personally prosecuted it until losing his election bid. He was assisted in the case by Deputy Attorney General Barry Disney, who also left the state attorney general's office during the transition.

    Six has since been nominated by President Barack Obama for a seat on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Disney has accepted a job with the U.S. attorney's office.

    Court filings show that when Six was handling the case prosecutors responded in writing within days to defense motions.

    Barton County Attorney Doug Matthews said in an email that he has "every confidence" in Braden as well the new attorney general and his staff to handle the prosecution.

    "I've attended several meeting with Mr. Braden and the other AG staff who are working on the prosecution of the case, and have been greatly impressed with the time and energy they've committed," Matthews said.

    Both Six and Schmidt said during their election campaigns last year that they supported the death penalty.

    But the election upset left the attorney general's office scrambling to replace the prosecutors who filed the charges.

    Braden took over prosecution of the case in late December during the transition. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Bauch entered his appearance in it last week.

    Unlike his predecessor, Schmidt is not personally prosecuting the Longoria case.

    "Attorney General Schmidt decided to appoint the head of the criminal division, Vic Braden, a career prosecutor, to lead the case," said Jeff Wagaman, spokesman for the Kansas attorney general's office. "Vic has extensive experience prosecuting homicide cases, and he led the prosecution team in the last death penalty verdict case in Kansas."

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...s-Teen-Killed/

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    The process of Kansas execution

    Death will come at 11 a.m. on their execution date for all Kansas prison inmates condemned for capital murder.

    The warden, chaplain and correctional officers serving on an execution strapdown team will enter the condemned inmate's holding cell on the fourth floor of an administration building at Lansing Correctional Facility.

    The warden will read the order of execution.

    The prisoner will be escorted to the lethal injection chamber on that same floor, strapped onto a gurney and allowed to make a final statement, which the warden will write down to be released later to the media.

    Prison officials will confirm there is no reason to stop the execution, then open curtains to the injection chamber so witnesses can watch.

    Those steps are part of the 57-page protocol for carrying out executions that the Kansas Department of Corrections has had in place since 2001.

    Eight Kansas inmates, all men, face death sentences.

    That number would rise by one if an Osage County judge on Oct. 11 follows the guidance a jury provided this past week.

    Jurors recommended James Kraig Kahler, 48, be executed for capital murder in the November 2009 gunshot slayings of his estranged wife, their two teenaged daughters and his wife's grandmother.

    None of those facing death sentences in Kansas figures to go to the execution gurney any time soon.

    This state, where the last execution took place by hanging in 1965, hasn't put anyone to death since its law allowing for capital punishment by lethal injection took effect in 1994.

    All inmates currently facing death sentences are pursuing appeals they have yet to exhaust, and none has ever seen an execution date set.

    The condemned include Gary Kleypas, who in 1998 became the first person sentenced to death under the current law after he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a Pittsburg State University student.

    The Kansas Supreme Court vacated Kleypas' sentence for legal reasons in 2001 before he was again sentenced to death in the same case in 2008.

    The inmates with the longest-standing current death sentences are brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr, condemned in 2002 for capital murder committed two years earlier in the deaths of three young men and a young woman in Wichita. The Carrs also were sentenced to life imprisonment for a separate, unrelated murder.

    Kansas legislators supporting capital punishment have been quick to cite the Carrs' crimes when that topic comes up for debate.

    The Kansas Senate in a 20-20 vote in February 2010 rejected a bill that would have abolished the death penalty for murders committed after July 1 of that year while leaving it in place for cases where a death sentence had already been imposed.

    A bill that would have made those same moves was introduced this year in the Kansas House but never received a hearing in its Federal and State Affairs Committee.

    Meanwhile, Lansing Correctional Facility warden David McCune says the corrections department — rather than maintaining a specific "death row" — chooses to keep its capital inmates in administrative segregation at El Dorado Correctional Facility.

    McCune said no specific death row was established because the feeling was that the administrative segregation unit at El Dorado was an appropriate security level for inmates being held on a death sentence.

    Corrections department spokesman Jan Lunsford said those in administrative segregation, including inmates who aren't facing death sentences, are locked alone in their cells for all but one hour five times a week, when they are allowed to come out and exercise by themselves in a secure pen.

    Lunsford said inmates in administrative segregation also are allowed out of the cells in restraints when they are taken to shower alone.

    Lunsford said seven of the state's capital inmates are at El Dorado while one — Scott Cheever, convicted in the 2005 slaying of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels — is at Lansing. Cheever is at Lansing because victims of his crime are employed at the El Dorado facility, McCune said.

    The decision to house capital inmates at one prison and execute them at another was made to benefit staff members who take care of those prisoners on a long-term basis, then-Kansas Corrections Secretary Chuck Simmons told The Topeka Capital-Journal in 2001.

    "An execution is something that has a certain amount of impact on all of the staff who participate," Simmons said.

    He spoke at a 2001 media event where the state showed reporters the lethal injection chamber it had completed the previous year on the top floor of a four-story administration building at Lansing Correctional Facility. The building previously had been declared structurally unsound and stood vacant for 20 years before the state renovated it.

    Corrections officials at the event also displayed an 8-foot-by-10-foot holding cell on the building's top floor where condemned inmates are to spend their final days.

    They said each condemned prisoner would be allowed a last meal of either the regular fare served that day to the other inmates at Lansing or something costing no more than $15 from a Lansing restaurant.

    Corrections officials said the execution would be witnessed by people in three rooms, including one containing as many as three people invited by the inmate, who would be able to see them through the glass.

    They said the inmate wouldn't be able to see those in the other rooms, which would contain family members of the victims and representatives of the news media and the government.

    The execution protocol adopted 10 years ago remains in place, Lunsford said.

    He provided The Capital-Journal a copy of that protocol. For security reasons, redactions had been made to all or part of 35 of the document's 57 pages.

    The protocol calls for a team of Lansing Correctional Facility officials to travel one week before the execution date to the prison where the condemned inmate is being kept.

    The inmate then will be transferred to the building housing the lethal injection chamber at Lansing.

    Lunsford said the building's fourth floor has gone unused over the past 10 years, through its lower three floors have been used on a daily basis for administrative functions.

    On the day of the execution, the protocol calls for an injection team and a strapdown team of corrections department employees to help carry out the sentence. Lunsford said the state has yet to determine which employees will serve on those.

    The protocol calls for the injection team to prepare all injection drugs on the morning the sentence is to be carried out.

    At execution time, protocol calls for one intravenous tube each to be placed in the right and left arms of the condemned inmate.

    The inmate will then be injected with sodium pentothol, to make him unconscious; pancuronium bromide, to halt breathing; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart.

    The sole American manufacturer of sodium pentothol, also known as sodium thiopenal, announced in January it would no longer produce the drug.

    The move was expected to force some states to adopt new drug combinations for lethal injection and to delay further executions, some of which had already been moved back because of the drug's limited supply.

    McCune said Friday that the state of Kansas has yet to obtain the chemicals it will need to carry out executions by lethal injection

    “We do not stock any of these drugs as they have expiration shelf lives,” he said.

    http://cjonline.com/news/local/2011-...n#.TmKCYGPLq_I

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    Bill abolishing death penalty to get cursory glance

    A House bill that would abolish the death penalty in Kansas and add the crime of aggravated murder with a sentencing of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole will receive an informational hearing Thursday, but it is doubtful any action will be taken.

    Kansas had the death penalty statute until a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck it down, but the court reversed its decision in 1976. Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. The state hasn’t carried out a death sentence since then, but nine Kansas capital inmates are currently awaiting execution with an additional capital inmate awaiting resentencing.

    During the 2011 legislative session, the House bill to repeal the death penalty statute for crimes committed after July 1, 2012, and replace the punishment with life without the possibility of parole never received a hearing by the Federal and State Affairs Committee. Two separate Senate bills would have abolished the death penalty, but neither made it far. During the 2010 legislative session, the Senate was one vote short of passing a death penalty abolishment bill.

    The bill, HB 2323, was introduced by the House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Feb. 11, 2011, before being referred to Federal and State Affairs three days later. It didn't receive a hearing last year, but on Friday, Rep. Pat Colloton’s secretary said the bill had been scheduled for an informational hearing before the federal and state affairs committee Thursday. Colloton, a Leawood Republican, is chairwoman of the corrections committee.

    The last time an execution was carried out in Kansas was in 1965, when Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock were hanged by the state for the brutal murders of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 in Holcomb. Truman Capote wrote about the murders in the famous work titled “In Cold Blood.”

    The current death penalty statute was enacted in 1994 when Gov. Joan Finney allowed it to become law without her signature.

    The nine inmates awaiting execution in Kansas are:

    ■ James Kraig Kahler, convicted in October 2011 of murdering his estranged wife, Karen Kahler; two teenage daughters, Lauren and Emily; and Karen’s grandmother, Dorothy Wight, in Wight’s Burlingame home in November 2009.

    ■ Douglas Belt, convicted in November 2004 of capital murder, attempted rape and aggravated arson in the killing of Lucille Gallegos in Wichita. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections’ KASPER records, he is being held at El Dorado Correctional Facility.

    ■ Reginald Carr, convicted of capital murder for the December 15, 2000, murders of Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller and Aaron Sander and of first-degree murder for killing Ann Walenta four days before the quadruple murder. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Jonathan Carr, convicted of the same five murders as his older brother Reginald. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Scott Cheever, convicted in November 2007 of killing Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005. He is being held at Lansing.

    ■ Sidney John Gleason, convicted in July 2006 in the shooting deaths of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Gary Wayne Kleypas, convicted for the 1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ John Edward Robinson Sr., convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and of first-degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985 and was never found. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Justin Thurber, sentenced to death for the January 2007 killing of 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm. He is being held at El Dorado.

    A 10th death sentence, that of Phillip Cheatham, is under litigation. Cheaver was convicted in September 2005 of one count of capital murder, two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted first degree murder in the deaths of Gloria Jones and Annette Roberson. A third victim, Annetta Thomas, played dead and survived with 19 gunshot wounds. In 2010 he was granted resentencing, which hasn’t yet been completed. He is being held at Lansing Correctional Facility.

    http://cjonline.com/news/2012-03-11/...cursory-glance

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    The reporter gets it wrong when he/she states that the murderers of the Clutter family were the last inmates to be executed in Kansas. "George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham (both died June 22, 1965) were an American spree killer team who are the most recent individuals executed by the U.S. state of Kansas."

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    Kan. Senate taking up death penalty appeal changes

    The Kansas Senate is considering a bill shortening the time for inmates convicted of capital murder to appeal their death sentences to the state Supreme Court.

    The measure on Wednesday's debate calendar would specify time limits for filing documents in such appeals and for the Supreme Court to hear arguments on them.

    The changes were sought by proponents of capital punishment concerned about the pace at which death penalty appeals reach the high court — in some cases, more than a decade.

    Kansas enacted capital punishment in 1994 but has yet to carry out an execution. Nine men are under death sentences in state prisons.

    http://www.chron.com/news/article/Ka...es-5226981.php
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    Is this similar to the "Timely Justice Act", in Florida?
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Senate votes to expedite executions

    Bill up for final action Thursday would limit appeals process for death row inmates

    By Andy Marso

    The Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill to speed up the appeals process for death row inmates — despite concerns it could increase the likelihood of the state executing someone who was wrongly convicted.

    Sen. Jeff King, R-Independence, said Kansas hasn’t executed anyone in the 20 years since the reinstatement of the death penalty. He said the state currently has a lenient appeals timeline that has caused execution dates to be long delayed, even for those convicted of heinous crimes, like Wichita brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr.

    “In the 20 years since the reinstatement of the death penalty, no case in Kansas has made it past even the first appeal,” King said. “No state in the union will allow the Carr brothers to delay, delay, delay their appeals as we have done in Kansas.”

    Senate Substitute for House Bill 2389 moves to final Senate action Thursday. It would put hard deadlines on when the transcript and court records of a capital murder case must be prepared, as well as when the appellate briefs are due.

    In order to help judicial staff members hit those deadlines, the bill would mandate that capital cases take precedent, allowing court reporters to file extensions for other cases to expedite work on death penalty cases.

    It also would limit the direct appeals process to 31/2 years, though King noted that capital murder defendants still would be able to access two other levels of appeals.

    "We’re talking about on average of 11 years of time for these appeals to occur even if (HB) 2389 becomes law," King said. "We’re not talking about a three-year appellate process.”

    Still, opponents of the bill worried that any acceleration of appeals could speed an innocent person to their death at the hands of the state.

    Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said he personally knew a man who served three years in Kansas for rape before new evidence exonerated him.

    The appellate bill emerged this session at the same time as a study showing what capital punishment is costing the state judiciary, largely because of lengthy appeals. The bill could undercut the cost argument for a separate bill to repeal the death penalty that had a committee hearing early in the session but hasn’t advanced.

    Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City, unsuccessfully tried an amendment to mandate a $5 million payment to the estate of anyone the state executed who was later exonerated.

    Haley called the law allowing capital punishment a "barbaric, chest-bump of a statute" and asked his colleagues what price they would put on the life of an innocent person who is executed.

    “In our justice system sometimes the wrong person is convicted," Haley said. "I don’t think that’s an epiphany here.”

    King said there are already remedies within state law, including a wrongful death lawsuit.

    Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, another death penalty opponent, said some capital murder defendants are represented by public defenders who work large caseloads for relatively little pay, and she worried about putting deadlines on them combing through hundreds of pages that are "like a scientific document, not a novel."

    “So now we’re going to hurry things up, and mistakes can be made," McGinn said. "We’re not talking about folks already on death row. We’re talking from this day forward we’re going to speed this process up. I hope it doesn’t happen, but some day we could be like other states and end up executing an innocent person.”

    http://cjonline.com/news/2014-02-12/...ite-executions

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    Bill abolishing death penalty to get cursory glance

    A House bill that would abolish the death penalty in Kansas and add the crime of aggravated murder with a sentencing of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole will receive an informational hearing Thursday, but it is doubtful any action will be taken.

    Kansas had the death penalty statute until a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck it down, but the court reversed its decision in 1976. Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. The state hasn’t carried out a death sentence since then, but nine Kansas capital inmates are currently awaiting execution with an additional capital inmate awaiting resentencing.

    During the 2011 legislative session, the House bill to repeal the death penalty statute for crimes committed after July 1, 2012, and replace the punishment with life without the possibility of parole never received a hearing by the Federal and State Affairs Committee. Two separate Senate bills would have abolished the death penalty, but neither made it far. During the 2010 legislative session, the Senate was one vote short of passing a death penalty abolishment bill.

    The bill, HB 2323, was introduced by the House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Feb. 11, 2011, before being referred to Federal and State Affairs three days later. It didn't receive a hearing last year, but on Friday, Rep. Pat Colloton’s secretary said the bill had been scheduled for an informational hearing before the federal and state affairs committee Thursday. Colloton, a Leawood Republican, is chairwoman of the corrections committee.

    The last time an execution was carried out in Kansas was in 1965, when Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock were hanged by the state for the brutal murders of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 in Holcomb. Truman Capote wrote about the murders in the famous work titled “In Cold Blood.”

    The current death penalty statute was enacted in 1994 when Gov. Joan Finney allowed it to become law without her signature.

    The nine inmates awaiting execution in Kansas are:

    ■ James Kraig Kahler, convicted in October 2011 of murdering his estranged wife, Karen Kahler; two teenage daughters, Lauren and Emily; and Karen’s grandmother, Dorothy Wight, in Wight’s Burlingame home in November 2009.

    ■ Douglas Belt, convicted in November 2004 of capital murder, attempted rape and aggravated arson in the killing of Lucille Gallegos in Wichita. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections’ KASPER records, he is being held at El Dorado Correctional Facility.

    ■ Reginald Carr, convicted of capital murder for the December 15, 2000, murders of Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller and Aaron Sander and of first-degree murder for killing Ann Walenta four days before the quadruple murder. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Jonathan Carr, convicted of the same five murders as his older brother Reginald. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Scott Cheever, convicted in November 2007 of killing Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005. He is being held at Lansing.

    ■ Sidney John Gleason, convicted in July 2006 in the shooting deaths of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Gary Wayne Kleypas, convicted for the 1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ John Edward Robinson Sr., convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and of first-degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985 and was never found. He is being held at El Dorado.

    ■ Justin Thurber, sentenced to death for the January 2007 killing of 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm. He is being held at El Dorado.

    A 10th death sentence, that of Phillip Cheatham, is under litigation. Cheaver was convicted in September 2005 of one count of capital murder, two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted first degree murder in the deaths of Gloria Jones and Annette Roberson. A third victim, Annetta Thomas, played dead and survived with 19 gunshot wounds. In 2010 he was granted resentencing, which hasn’t yet been completed. He is being held at Lansing Correctional Facility.

    http://cjonline.com/news/2012-06-06/...cursory-glance
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