I hope today is the day that arrests are made.
If not, I hope RH decides to tell why he may have done this and who put him up to it.
(maybe to save himself the death penalty) imo
As always, prayers for the Kimmi family.
Prayers and a shining beacon of light that leads to Patricia.
dreamweaver, this is kansas, contract killings do qualify for the death penalty, but to say you hope RH decides to tell why he MAY have done this to protet himself from the death penalty is kind of jumping the gun, just MO..some facts on kansas tho..
kansas BARELY re-instated the death penalty in 1994 & we are not exactly an "eye for eye" state, the 94 enactment was the 3rd time the DP was avail in KS, the '94 enactment was neither signed or vetoed by Gov Finney
the 1st DP was abolished in 07, reinstated in 35....the first execution under the 35 law was in 44, & the state executed 9 people in the next 10 yrs...
fast forward to 94, there have been over 100 potential capitol cases since 94, 77 were filed as capitol, & 25 went to court as a capitol case...13 were not sentanced to death, 12 were.. of the 12, somehow 10 remain, i think a couple got reversed or dropped (idk & idr), but there aer currenty 10 people on death row in kanas, some very hanious crimes, yes they deserve to die
but we havent used what is at our disposal, & probably never will, there is too much bleeding heart opposition to the DP in ks..as long as we have it, it pacifies those that want it, as long we dont use it, it pacifies that lay in wait to oppose it, in case we do decide to use it
we spend 1.4 (or so million) keeping these 10 inmates in elderado..if we ever execute it will be in lansing, because we dont want the gaurds to become emotionally attached to these bastards
sounds like alot of money, but do the math, if 2 gaurds can watch 10 guys & they make lets say 40 k per year (bennies & all).....thats 240 per year, (8 guards total sharing a 24/7 shift..the extras for weekends, vacations etc)..then ya gotta feed these 10 guys, give them med treatment, house them, utilities, etc...its reasonable but wasted money
on the other hand, it takes 10 or 15 people with 20-30K each of pocket money to decide DP is unjust, & keep the whole mess tied up in the courts until the poor misunderstood soul dies a nice calm death of natural causes, or gets old enough or sick enough that they let him go out of pity....like the convicted guy that recently got let go up in jersey or somewhere b/c had had lung cancer, BFD, it dont bring back the accosted
anyhow, i ramble on, but bottom line, we aint executing anybody in this state, right or wrong, its not going to happen without a cost that is much greater than the cost of being "in the middle", & thats where ks is, right in the middle