• All Death Sentences Overturned in Kansas — The Kansas Supreme Court found that the state’s death penal­ty law is flawed and the sen­tences of the state’s four death row inmates will have to be decid­ed again. Kansas’s law allowed a death sen­tence if the aggra­vat­ing fac­tors pre­sent­ed by the pros­e­cu­tor were equal to the mit­i­gat­ing fac­tors pre­sent­ed by the defense. ​“Fundamental fair­ness” requires that a tie go to the defen­dant when it is a mat­ter of life and death, said the court. (NY Times, 12/​30/​01)