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Year of Reenactment
(since 1972 suspension) |
1994 | |
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Year of First Execution
(since reenactment) |
none | |
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History
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1872-1906: hanging |
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Current Method
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Lethal injection | |
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Kansas has life without parole. A jury decides the sentence. The Governor has the sole authority to commute a death sentence to a term of life without parole.
In December 2001 the Kansas Supreme Court found the state's death penalty law to be flawed and ordered all cases resentenced. The final resentencing was completed in September 2008, when Gary Kleypas was again sentenced to death.