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A man charged with murdering two Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputies is trying to overturn Kansas’ death penalty with the aid of the ACLU, arguing the process for seating capital juries ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The death penalty creates racially biased juries, results in wrongful convictions and does not deter crime, attorneys seeking to overturn capital punishment in Kansas said in ...
Noah T. Cole, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty March 1 in Clay County to one count of second-degree murder for the killing of 33-year-old Matthew Stauch, who was found stabbed to death after his ...
Kansas v. Marsh, 548 U.S. 163 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Kansas death penalty statute was consistent with the United States Constitution. The statute in question provided for a death sentence when the aggravating factors and mitigating factors were of equal weight. [1]
He was arrested and charged with third-degree assault, but was let go on a suspended sentence and probation. [4] In November 1981, Gilyard was arrested for theft but was released on $3,500 bail . That same spring, he received a 4-year prison sentence for violating his probation.
In 2005, the United States Supreme Court held that offenders under the age of 18 at the time of the murder were exempt from the death penalty under Roper v. Simmons. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court held in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday overturned the felony murder conviction and vacated the life prison sentence of a man accused of killing an 18-year-old during a botched marijuana sale in Kansas ...
He was convicted of rape and capital murder; the aggravated sodomy charge was dropped as part of the capital murder charge. [19] On March 31, 2010, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [20] In 2013, Mireles appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court requesting a new trial; [21] the court upheld his conviction. [22]