From the Office of Senator Ralph Ostmeyer _Kansas
Found this interesting if you are all following on what's going on with in the state. From the Office of Senator Ralph Ostmeyer January 25, 2016 Information to Note: CARR BROTHERS DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 that the Kansas Supreme Court Justices unjustly overturned the death sentences of the nefarious Carr brothers. Reginald and Johnathan Carr committed atrocious crimes of rape, robbery, kidnaping, and murder in Wichita, in the winter of 2000. In 2002, the two were tried jointly and both were sentenced to death. However, in 2014 the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the cases should have been separated, therefore the verdicts were deemed invalid. Additionally the lower court ruled that the jury was uninformed of the mitigating factors, which included the details of the abusive and traumatic childhood that the brothers experienced. Nonetheless, the United States Supreme Court struck down the 2014 decision to overturn their sentence