Not since 1965....
http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/...riday/27130132
Not since 1965....
http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/...riday/27130132
Please don't just post links. Post the material and THEN the link.
Death sentences overturned in Carr brothers case
WICHITA, Kan. - The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences against Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The two were convicted of killing five people in Wichita in 2000.
We will post details on the ruling, which just came down this morning, shortly.
Last December, attorneys for the brothers told the Kansas Supreme Court that their convictions should be overturned.
District Attorney Marc Bennett expects to release a statement on the decisions Friday afternoon.
Help me understand. Did they just get away with 4 murders each?
Attorney General Will Appeal Death Penalty Decisions
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review three recent Kansas Supreme Court decisions that overturned death sentences.
Schmidt believes that the punishments were within federal constitutional requirements.
The State Supreme Court upheld the capital murder convictions of Sidney Gleason, Reginald Carr and Jonathan Carr, but vacated all three death sentences.
By officially notifying State Supreme Court that he will officially appeal, further proceedings will be put on hold until they have been reviewed.
The decision whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court will here the case could come before the end of the year, although only about 5% of cases submitted to the Supreme Court are even heard.
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/A...270484311.html
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Families of Carr brothers victims seek removal of two Kansas Supreme Court justices
BY FRED MANN
THE WICHITA EAGLE
Friends and family members of the victims of Jonathan and Reginald Carr have formed an organization opposing the retention of two Kansas Supreme Court justices who were part of a majority decision that granted the brothers’ appeal of their 2002 murder convictions.
Kansans for Justice wants to remove justices Lee Johnson and Eric Rosen from the court at the ballot box in November. Johnson and Rosen are two members of the court majority that granted the appeal. Supreme Court justices stand for retention every six years.
The Carr were convicted of killing five people in Wichita in 2000. One of the people tortured and raped by the brothers survived and testified against them at their 2002 trial.
In July, the state’s highest court overturned their death sentences and struck down three of each man’s four capital murder convictions
“Our family was devastated by the murderous crime spree of the Carr brothers,” Mark Befort, brother of one of the victims, Jason Befort, said in a written statement. “We had to re-live the hideous acts when the Carr brothers were tried two years later.
Now the Kansas Supreme Court has voted to either eliminate these verdicts or force all of the family members and surviving victims to have to once again re-live those crimes in court, or see these guilty verdicts erased. This is an outrage and we will be fighting from now through November 4 to get Kansans to understand the injustice the Kansas Supreme Court is creating.”
Kansans for Justice has established a website, www.kansansforjustice.com.
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/cri...le2651289.html
"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."
- Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian
"There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
- Rev. Richard Hawke
“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.”
- Rowan Atkinson
I assume he got LWOP but the death sentence can still be imposed again?
Carr brother death penalty case appealed to Supreme Court
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today formally appealed the Kansas Supreme Court’s decisions that vacated the death sentences of Reginald and Jonathan Carr. The Carr brothers were convicted of killing five people in Wichita in 2000.
Schmidt is also appealing the vacated death sentence of Sidney Gleason. He was convicted of killing Miki Martinez and Darren Wornkey in 2004 in Barton County.
On July 18, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the capital murder conviction of Sidney Gleason but vacated Gleason’s death sentence. One week later, on July 25, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld a single capital murder conviction each for Reginald and Jonathan Carr but similarly vacated both of their death sentences.
Schmidt announced in August his intention to appeal the Kansas Supreme Court’s decisions, and today he formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the cases.
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court whether to hear the state’s appeal in any or all of these three cases is expected before the end of the Court’s current term in June, 2015.
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/C...279476632.html
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Not worried about this one. Even if the case of the Wichita Massacre is tossed for re-trial they will still be held for the death of Ann Welenta, the cellist they murdered December 11th in her home. I believe they have the most charges of anybody in the Kansas DOC.
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