Entries tagged with “Hugo Villanueva”

Oct 29, 2024

Hearings Begin on Constitutional Challenge to Kansas’ Death Penalty and Capital Jury Selection Process

On October 28, 2024, hear­ings began in Kansas’ Wyandotte County District Court regard­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the state’s death penal­ty and its cap­i­tal jury selec­tion process. A coali­tion of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, the ACLU of Kansas, the Kansas Death Penalty Unit, and the law firms Hogan Lovells and Ali & Lockwood brought the chal­lenge. The team argues that the death penal­ty, which is rarely used in Kansas, is ​“arbi­trary, racial­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry, unre­li­able, and…