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KCADP Nominee Slate Announced

November 5, 2024

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 year) Treasurer:  Robert Sanders Board of Directors: Kelson Bohnet Celeste Dixon Bria Leigh Nelson Ron Wurtz Kenzie Borland Kevin Hill Ally Monson (1 year)   The KCADP annual meeting will take place at 1 p.m. November 16th at the Big 12 Room in the KU Memorial Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. in Lawrence. Following the annual […]

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Kansas Death Penalty on Trial 2024

October 30, 2024

Often when people think of the death penalty, their minds go to individual cases.  That is understandable.  What cannot be forgotten however are the questions about how our law operates on a systemic scale. On Monday October 28th Judge Klapper in Wyandotte County District Court began hearing a constitutional challenge to the Kansas death penalty.  This pretrial challenge is applicable to the cases of two men facing the death penalty in that county. The State Board of Indigent Defense Services, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Kansas ACLU, and attorneys from Hogan Lovells, and Ali & Lockwood are collaborating in […]

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OUR RECENT POSTS

Reexamining Justice: Healing the Harm after Homicide

Is the death penalty “the best” Kansas has to offer families who have lost loved ones to homicide?   Does capital punishment address the needs of traumatized communities whose sense of safety has been violated?   A recent KCADP webinar, "Reexamining Justice:  How Restorative … [ Read More... ]

“Confronting Crime: Open Discussions on Public Safety and Capital Punishment”

      Register today  for "Confronting Crime: Open Discussions on Public Safety and Capital Punishment”. This is KCADP's Annual Meeting and Abolition  Conference. The location will be FireWorx, 500 S. Topeka St, Wichita, KS. Date is November 11th, 2023.  Time 1 to 3 … [ Read More... ]

Reexamining Justice: How Restorative Principles Can End the Death Penalty in Kansas

  Speakers are Todd Lehman and Celeste Dixon.   Mr. Lehman is the Executive Director of Offender Victim Ministries of Kansas.  Ms. Dixon is a Kansas resident whose mother Marguerite was murdered in Texas.  The person charged with the murder was convicted and sentenced to death and … [ Read More... ]

The Kansas Death Penalty at 29: What do the years tell us?  

  On July 1st,  Kansas entered its twenty ninth year of a capital punishment law on the books again.   Passed by the legislature and allowed by Governor Joan Finney to become law without her signature, the bill was accompanied by many hopes and promises of its supporters.  “We’ll … [ Read More... ]

KCADP Address Stays the Same…for now at least!

As noted in our newsletter, KCADP is one of the many individuals and groups affected by the temporary closure of the downtown Topeka post office on May 27th. The Post Office staff indicate that for now the KCADP address will stay the same (PO Box 2065, Topeka, Kansas 66601).  There is mention of … [ Read More... ]