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The Kansas Attorney General's Office asked a judge Dec. 29 to deny, without an evidentiary hearing, a suit filed by quadruple murderer James Kahler. 'Not a potted plant': Kansas AG's office ...
Kahler v. Kansas , 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a case of the United States Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution do not require that states adopt the insanity defense in criminal cases that are based on the defendant's ability to recognize right from wrong.
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Here are the three death row inmates that weren’t on the president’s commutations list: Robert D. Bowers. Bowers is the gunman behind the deadly 2018 antisemitic Tree of Life synagogue attack ...
James Kraig Kahler: Murders of his wife Karen, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily, and his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight. 13 years, 126 days Gary Kleypas 1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas. 26 years, 340 days (first sentence; overturned) 16 years, 73 days (second sentence)
The Supreme Court in 2017 ruled for a Black death row inmate who was sentenced after an expert witness testified he was statistically more likely to act violently in the future because of his race.
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The Pope was among those who called on Biden to commute the sentences of those on death row before leaving office. Others argued that an execution was a fitting remedy for hate-fueled mass killer.