KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The death penalty in Kansas is racist ... “Researchers have tried to extrapolate from the known number of people who have been exonerated off of death row to the likely rate of ...

Attorneys for Villanueva, including lawyers with the ACLU, spent weeks building a case that the way Kansas practices the death penalty is unfair and racially biased. More than a dozen witnesses ...

The Kansas Supreme Court ... based on an extrapolation from the known number of people exonerated off death row. “If someone said one in 25 airplanes will crash, no one would fly,” she ...

The Kansas Supreme Court, which conducts business in a building with this message embedded on an interior wall, revoked the state certification of court reporter Jessica Belcher. She was accused ...

Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline answers questions ... he felt bad for family members of victims whose assailants are on death row. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court will take years and could ...

He was convicted of capital murder in October 2007 and was sentenced to death. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned that verdict in August 2012, ruling that prosecutors had violated Cheever's Fifth ...

A Kansas City man is accused of fatally shooting ... Eric Zahnd said his office would consider whether to pursue the death penalty for Navarro in the coming days. “This is a horrific crime, ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are ...

Alito’s vote in the Kansas case was presumed to be decisive ... which recently commuted the sentences of all its death-row inmates, and studies on incidences of DNA-related exonerations present ...