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Jul 15, 2026

Murder Victim’s Daughter and Faith Leaders Urge Kansas Governor to Commute Death Sentences

In a July 8, 2026 op-ed pub­lished in the *Kansas Reflector*, Celeste Dixon, a retired U.S. Navy reservist and National Park Service employ­ee who lives in Pawnee County, Kansas, calls on Governor Laura Kelly to com­mute the sen­tences of the nine men on Kansas’ death row to life with­out parole. Writing from per­son­al expe­ri­ence, Ms. Dixon notes that near­ly 40 years ago, her moth­er, Marguerite, was mur­dered in Texas; almost 19 years ago, the indi­vid­ual who killed her mother was…