blognetnews.com
» Kansas

Kansas Death Penalty Focus

  • Closing Down

    Number of comments: 0
    After much thought I've decided that I need to close this blog down. Things have gotten to hectic to keep it up and running in a worthwhile manner. I'll leave the site up as an archive and who knows, I might start blogging again in the future. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 19, 2008, 4:29pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Evidence hearing begins in Thurber case

    Number of comments: 0
    BY TIM POTTER
    The Wichita Eagle

    Testimony this morning in a hearing on whether to allow some evidence in the trial of Jason Thurber focused on searches of Thurber's room in his parents' house.

    The defense has contended that search warrants are overly broad. Prosecutors said authorities seized [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 27, 2008, 1:16pm EST
    by KSDP Focus

  • We're Still Here

    Sorry for the lack of updates. We're in the middle of a couple of cases right now that have kept me away from the blog longer than I planned. We'll be back to regular posting as soon as we can. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: February 14, 2008, 12:20pm EST
    by KSDP Focus

  • Behind on Updates

    Due to an ongoing family emergency, I'm WAY behind on updates. I hope to be back on track by the end of the year. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: December 04, 2007, 9:05am EST
    by KSDP Focus

  • October Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    Act now to voice your opposition to these upcoming executions. (This post will remain on top so long as there is an execution scheduled this month. New posts follow below.)

    October 3rd - (TX) Heliberto Chi - Stay issued

    Ovtober 15th - (NV) William Castillo - Stay issued
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 26, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Sister Helen Prejean To Speak In Wichita

    Number of comments: 0
    DEAD MAN WALKING - THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

    Sister Helen Prejean will be in Wichita on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 to present "Dead Man Walking - The Journey Continues" to the public. This presentation will take place at the Wilner Auditorium on the campus of Wichita [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 24, 2007, 10:28pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • State v. Scott Cheever

    Number of comments: 0
    Updated 11/1 - After less than 2 hours of deliberations, the jury has sentenced Scott Cheever to death. I'd post more but emotion won't let me at this point.

    Updated 10/31 - Scott Cheever was convicted yesterday of all counts, including capital murder. The Penalty phase has begun. The [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: October 17, 2007, 8:20pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • September Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    Sept. 5 - Tony Roach - Murdered by the State of Texas

    Sept. 12 - Daryl Holton - Murdered by the State of Tennessee

    Sept. 13 - (TX) Joseph Lave - Stay issued (at the request of the District Attorney)

    Sept. 18 - (AR) Terrick Nooner - [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 28, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Kansas should rethink death penalty

    Number of comments: 0
    Quoted from the Wichita Eagle Sept. 13, 2007

    It's hard to imagine that any of the 89 Kansas lawmakers who voted in 1994 to revive the death penalty for the "the worst of the worst" criminals anticipated it would still be unused come 2007. Each year sends more' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 15, 2007, 9:10am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Kansas Death Penalty Under Review Again

    Number of comments: 0
    The Kansas Supreme Court recently heard re-oral argument in State v. Gavin Scott. The primary issue during this argument was whether the Kansas Constitution provides more protection than does the United States Constitution. Specifically, the Kansas Constitution prohibits "cruel or unusual punishment" while the United States Constitution prohibits "cruel and [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: September 08, 2007, 1:04pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • August Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    August 15 Kenneth Parr - Murdered by the State of Texas

    August 21 Frank Welch - Murdered by the State of Oklahoma

    August 22 Johnny Conner - Murdered by the State of Texas

    August 23 Luther Williams - Murdered by the State of Alabama

    August 28 [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: August 30, 2007, 1:48pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • July Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    July 10 Rolando Ruiz (TX) - Stayed

    July 11 Elijah Page - Murdered by the State of South Dakota

    July 24 Lonnie Johnson - Murdered by the State of Texas

    July 26 Darrell Grayson - Murdered by the State of Alabama [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: July 27, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • June Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    June 6 Michael Griffith - Murdered by the State of Texas

    June 13 (VA) - Christopher Scott Emmett - Stay Issued (by the Governor 2 hours before execution)

    June 13 (TX) - Cathy Henderson - Stay Issued

    June 15 Michael Allen Lambert - Murdered by the State [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 27, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Must See Videos

    Number of comments: 0









    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 05, 2007, 10:57am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Bothched Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    CNN.com has a great article on the recent string of bothced executions.

    At Christopher Newton's execution by lethal injection last month, it took 90 minutes and at least 10 stabs of the needle for the execution team to find a vein. The procedure was so drawn out' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: June 05, 2007, 10:25am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • News Links

    Number of comments: 0
    You may have noticed that I'm not posting links to newspapers and television coverage of hearings in capital cases as often as I used to. I have decided to stop providing links to these stories (except in rare occasions). This site is OPPOSED to the death penalty. However, based on' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 31, 2007, 9:19am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Another Botched Execution

    Number of comments: 0
    Looks like another state (Ohio) botched an execution.

    Back in the days of drawing and quartering, burning people at the stake, boiling them in water, hanging, firing squad, etc. etc., it generally did not take an hour and a half to kill a person.

    And it goes without [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 24, 2007, 9:22pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • May Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    May 3rd - Aaron Lee Jones - Murdered by the State of Alabama

    May 4th - David Woods - Murdered by the State of Indiana

    May 8th (NE) - Carey Dean Moore - Stay Issued

    May 9th Philip Workman - Murdered by the State of Tennessee [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 24, 2007, 9:21pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Defense to argue voluntary intoxication in sheriff's killing

    Number of comments: 0
    Wichita Eagle

    EL DORADO, Kan. - The attorney for a man accused of killing a southeast Kansas sheriff said Monday that his client will use a "voluntary intoxication" defense at his trial.

    Scott Cheever is charged with capital murder in the January 2005 shooting death of Greenwood [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 14, 2007, 7:03pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Another Innocent Man Freed From Death Row

    Number of comments: 0
    Press Release: May 11, 2007
    Contact: Eric Ferrero (Innocence Project)
    212-364-5346

    * * *

    After 21 Years in Prison – including 16 on Death
    Row – Curtis McCarty is Exonerated Based on DNA Evidence

    Oklahoma City case is one of the worst cases of government misconduct in [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 12, 2007, 3:28pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Death Penalty: An Expensive Joke

    Number of comments: 0
    Bob Ingle Blog

    Study after study shows the only punishment that works as a deterrent is the punishment that is swift and sure. The death penalty in New Jersey is neither swift nor sure and therefore is worthless. (In those states where the death penalty is used it [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 11, 2007, 9:23pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • N.J. bill would abolish death penalty

    Number of comments: 0
    UPI

    TRENTON, N.J., May. 11 (UPI) -- A bill that would make New Jersey the first state in decades to abolish the death penalty has moved a step closer to approval.

    The state Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure 8-2 Thursday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The bill [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 11, 2007, 9:20pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • NJ Steps Closer to Abolishing Death Penalty

    Number of comments: 0
    New York Public Radio

    NEW YORK, NY May 11, 2007 —New Jersey has taken another step toward abolishing the death penalty.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee voted eight-to-two to push forward a bill that would replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole.

    The vote came [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 11, 2007, 9:20pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • (It's To Late To) Stop the Execution of Phillip Workman

    Number of comments: 0
    [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: May 02, 2007, 11:29am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • April Executions

    Number of comments: 0
    April 11th - James Lee Clark - Murdered by the State of Texas

    April 18th - (TX) Cathy Henderson - Stay Issued

    April 24th - James Filiaggi - Murdered by the State of Ohio

    April 26th - Ryan Dickson - Murdered by the State of Texas[...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 27, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Colorado is Getting There

    Number of comments: 0
    On the western side of Kansas, Colorado is considering legislation that would take money away from the prosecution of capital cases and instead us it to work on solving cold cases, including over 1,000 unsolved homicides. Finally, a legislature that seems to be opening their eyes to the monetary waste [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 15, 2007, 2:54pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Missouri Attempts to Hide the Death Process

    Number of comments: 0
    Two posts about Missouri in one day, you'd think all this was going on in Texas. Besides the stupidity I mentioned in my previous post, the Missouri House has also passed a bill that would make it a crime to disclose the identity of those involved in the state murder' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 15, 2007, 2:49pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Missouri House Decides the Constitution Can Be Thrown Out in some Capital Cases

    The Missouri House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make the death penalty mandatory in cases where the victim is a law enforcement officer. That is, unless the Defendant can prove his/her life should be spared.

    Yes, you read that right, a presumption of death and a [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 15, 2007, 2:46pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Dallas Morning News Calls for an End to the Death Penalty In Texas

    The Dallas Morning News has reversed its century old position on the death penalty and is now calling for its abolition in Texas.

    Death no more: It's time to end capital punishment

    Sunday, April 15, 2007

    Ernest Ray Willis set a fire that killed two' [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 15, 2007, 2:40pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Blog Roll

    Sorry for the lack of updates and for the quick post. It's been hectic around here to say the least. I hope to get several updates posted this weekend. For now, check out the blogroll. I've added some new anti-death penalty links. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 05, 2007, 9:05pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • State Gets To Test All Sanderholm DNA

    Wichita Eagle

    BY BARBARA J. ISENBERG
    The Wichita Eagle

    Prosecutors can test DNA samples in the Jodi Sanderholm case even if it means the defense can't conduct its own independent test, Cowley County District Judge Jim Pringle ruled Friday.

    DNA samples the prosecution has collected from [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: April 01, 2007, 2:58pm EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • Inmate Sets Cell Ablaze Before Execution

    CNN.com

    HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A death-row inmate who had vowed not to go willingly to the death chamber set a fire in his cell Thursday, but when the time came, walked to his death without a fight.

    Roy Lee Pippin, 51, was executed by lethal injection [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 30, 2007, 9:40am EDT
    by KSDP Focus

  • March Executions

    March 6th Robert Perez - Murdered by the State of Texas

    March 7th - Joseph Nichols - Murdered by the State of Texas

    March 20th (OH) - Kenneth Biro - Stay Issued

    March 20th - Charles Nealy - Murdered by the State of Texas

    March 28th [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Posted: March 30, 2007, 11:59pm EDT
    by GK
← Nick Sloan's Official Web Site The Huelskamp Herald →

Blog Info:
Kansas Death Penalty Focus

» http://ksdpfocus.blogspot.com/

Categories

Liberal

BNN Traffic Index

Alexa: No data
0

Compete: No data
0

Quantcast: No data
2

BNN Traffic Index: No data

BNN Influence Index

Rank

This week: Not ranked this week.

Last week: Not ranked last week.

12-week Average:

BNN Authority Index

Technorati: 0

Google: 0

BNN Authority Index: No data

» Subscribe to the Kansas Death Penalty Focus feed