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Kansas Abolition Debate Continues

By Steve Hall

"Executions debated," is the title of Barbara Hollingsworth's report in today Topeka Capital-Journal.Gov. Mark Parkinson, who drafted the state's death penalty law more than 15 years ago, said he believes the law is still good policy, but he is open to suggestions.His comments come as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers two bills that seek to abolish the death penalty in Kansas. Hearings, which continue Thursday, have included legal and cost arguments as well as personal stories of loss.Parkinson, now a Democrat, was serving as a Republican legislator when he worked on the current death penalty law, which went into effect in 1994. He said he believed it could be a deterrent."At the time I did it I felt it was very good public policy," Parkinson said on Wednesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).