Kansas Progressive Push Back Against Death Penalty Focused On AG Kris Kobach

The political tact . . .

Making the leading GOP dude in Kansas look like a big meany.

Here's the basics of recent arguments and more resources . . .

"But now that Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach wants to make nitrogen asphyxia the state’s designated method of execution, it’s time to start talking again about whether the state should kill people in our name.

"Even though the death penalty is law in Kansas, we are, in practice, a death penalty abolition state, because we haven’t chosen to use it in so long. Of course it would be Kobach, the GOP poster boy for bad ideas, who would be pushing a measure to make sure we could."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

The hangman coughs: Should Kansas again kill in the name of justice? - Kansas Reflector

Kansans haven't had to think much lately about the death penalty. The state's last execution was in 1965, of spree killer George Ronald York

I watched as Alabama suffocated a man to death. No, Kris Kobach, it didn't 'work well' | Opinion

Pastor Jeff Hood was in the execution chamber and saw the horrific effects of experimental nitrogen hypoxia, as AG Kris Kobach has proposed.

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