[Marathoner]

They use to hang'em in Kansas.

Just out of curiosity, when did Kansas do away with capital punishment? I know they hung the two In Cold Blood murderers back in, I believe, 1965.

[freedom4ever]

The judge on FOX News explained it just a few minutes ago. When the death penalty was abolished in the U.S. and then reinstated, Kansas was slow in getting it back in their state. The murders were committed during the time that there was no death penalty. This is why the killer, Rader, doesn't get death.

I watched this creep give his statement. He sounded like a politician giving some kind of victory speech or something. He was thanking everyone for all their help and talked about himself a lot. It was sickening.

[Non-Sequitur]

Just out of curiosity, when did Kansas do away with capital punishment?

1972. The Furman v Georgia decision invalidated every states death penalty legislation.

[AFPhys]

Rulings by the USSC annulled most if not all of the state's death penalty laws somewhere after that - probably because they weren't just somehow - and probably properly ruled - I don't recall and am not going to research that now.

Sometime during (I think) Reagan's era, the states managed to figure out how to satisfy the USSC's requirements, and many states passed laws to reinstate the death penalty.