An editorial in the Salina Journal of January 4, 2010 discusses the fact that Kansas lawmakers will start talking about eliminating the death penalty this month, but the debate will not be based on moral perspectives. Rather, they will be about money. Editor and Publisher Tom Bell says it is sad that matters of life and death in the Kansas Legislature will boil down to dollars and cents, but whatever the circumstances, we’re grateful the question of ending the state’s death penalty will get consideration in the legislature. “It’s high time Kansas joins 15 other states that have abolished capital punishment.”
