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December 8: KCADP Annual Meeting

November 20, 2025

  Calling all KCADP members! We invite you to join us for our virtual annual meeting this year.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about KCADP’s work, the officers and board who lead it, and what’s ahead in 2026. The date and time is Monday December 8th at 7:30 p.m. To receive the link, please register here. The agenda includes:  election of new officers and board members, Budget report, a Bylaws amendment and more.  The nominee slate will be published on the KCADP website in late November. For more information, email info@ksabolition.org or call 785-235-2237.

Repeal to Heal: Death Penalty Repeal Advances the Culture of Life.

September 8, 2025

      Join us at the 2025 Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty Conference!   This year we will reflect and learn together under the theme of Repeal to Heal: Death Penalty Repeal Advances the Culture of Life. Register today!   The decision to sentence someone to death is a statement that the defendant’s life is disposable.  It is a societal judgment that more violence is the answer to the act of homicide.  So instead of stopping the cycle of violence and asking how can there be acountability and healing, we replicate the original act.  More pain and trauma result. […]

OUR RECENT POSTS

The Landscape of the Kansas Death Penalty at 31–Part Two

In the first part of this series, we looked at how the law defines capital murder and initial decisions by the prosecutor on charging and the question of death notice.  Those are just the first of a series of decision points in Kansas capital cases.   Decision point 2:  go to trial or … [ Read More... ]

The Landscape of the Kansas Death Penalty at 31–Part One

  On July 1st, the Kansas death penalty turned 31 years old. KCADP board members have encountered persons who don’t even know Kansas HAS a death penalty.  We hope this article might bring a broader awareness of where capital punishment has been/is being sought in our state. What is … [ Read More... ]

Judge Klapper cites critical flaws with Kansas’ death penalty

The Kansas death penalty has been ‘on trial’ before Judge Bill Klapper in Wyandotte District Court since late October 2024. The State Board of Indigent Defense Services, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Kansas ACLU, and attorneys from Hogan Lovells, and Ali & Lockwood filed a … [ Read More... ]

2025 Death Penalty Repeal Legislation Introduced!

HB 2272, by Representatives Schreiber, Ballard, Carmichael, Osman, Sutton and Wasinger, was introduced on February 5th.  It has been referred to House Judiciary. SB 245 was introduced through Senate Judiciary Committee.  It has been referred to Senate Judiciary Committee. Both bills would end … [ Read More... ]

KCADP Nominee Slate Announced

At the annual meeting on November 16th in Lawrence, there will be election of officers and board members for terms beginning Jan. 1, 2025. Terms are two years in length unless otherwise noted. The nominees are Officers: Vice Chair:  Al Terwelp Secretary:  Willmar Harder (1 … [ Read More... ]