Entries tagged with “Jonathan Carr”
Religion
,Victims' Families
,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…
Issues
Jan 26, 2022
Kansas Supreme Court Rules that Death Penalty Does Not Violate State Constitution’s ‘Inalienable’ Right to Life
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s death penalty against two death-row prisoners’ challenges that capital punishment violates the“inalienable” right to life enshrined in the Kansas…