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Join Us September 10th!

August 23, 2022

    Join Us for this Special Event!   Panelists: Peter Goerzen, Professor of Bible and Religion, Bethel College Donna Schneweis, Board Chair, KCADP Ron Wurtz, Retired Federal Public Defender, First Director of the Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit Katie Rose Friesen Birkey, Bethel College Student Steven Becker, Former District Court Judge 27th District/Kansas State Rep. District 104 Wilma Loganbill, Murder Victim Family Member   Attendance Options: In person: Krehbiel Auditorium, Bethel College North Newton Virtual:   Zoom Event is open to KCADP members and the general public. No admission charge.   To register:  Email info@ksabolition.org and specify your attendance […]

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The US Supreme Court: “Finality” Can Be More Important Than Innocence Issues

July 10, 2022

Protecting prisoners’ rights and avoiding executions of innocent people in federal courts is nigh onto impossible. A man is on death row in part because of poor lawyering.  Four federal judges have agreed the man may well be innocent but the Supreme Court couldn’t overturn his conviction or stop the state from executing him because of a Clinton-era law and the Supreme Court majority’s placing finality over valid innocence claims of potentially innocent prisoners. That is exactly the case in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez where the high court, in a 6-3 decision on May 23,  said the Antiterrorism and Effective […]

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OUR RECENT POSTS

Remember KCADP on Giving Tuesday!

Dear Friends, Today is Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving. Since its founding in 2012, Giving Tuesday is now an international day devoted to celebrating and encouraging giving. In 2015, people from all over the world made online donations to non-profit organizations which … [ Read More... ]

Kansans Hear First Hand Testimony of Death Penalty’s Impact

“It feels like revenge to me” was how Larned resident Celeste Dixon described her journey with the death penalty system in Texas following the August 18, 1986 murder of her mother Marguerite Dixon. She spoke Saturday at the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty Abolition Conference in … [ Read More... ]

Nominee Slate 2016 KCADP Annual Meeting

On Saturday, Oct. 22nd, at 1 p.m. KCADP will hold its Annual Meeting and Abolition Conference at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Olathe.  During the annual meeting, a nominee slate for officers and directors will be offered for KCADP members' consideration.   Officer Nominees: Vice … [ Read More... ]

Register Today for 2016 Annual Abolition Conference!

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Let the Candidates Hear from You!

Spread the abolition message! In these critical weeks when candidates are out and about as they run for the Legislature, it’s a prime opportunity for you, the people in their district, to engage with them about the death penalty. If you do, you are providing them with vital information so they … [ Read More... ]