Posted on 11/14/2002 4:40:36 PM PST by ewing
Reginald and Johnathan Carr were both sentenced to death for four murders in Wichita in December 200.
The jury in the Carr capital murder trial, which last week convicted the two men of the murders and a long list of other crimes agreed that both men should be executed for the capital murders.
The two will be sentenced by Judge Paul Clark tomorrow on the remaining charges.
Previous Kansans have agreed with you. Kansas has had more lynchings and *nonjudicial hangings* than lawful executions. Over two hundred lynchings have taken place there, about half during Kansas' first 15 years [opened up for settlement in 1854.] About 90 persons were legally hanged between 1970 and 1932.
My former editor, a Kansas native [and newspaper publisher returned to his Sunflower state home to continue his trade in the newspaper publishing racket] was quite proud of that little facet of his state's history. When I received a major press association award named for a western newspaperman who later became a Montana hangman, he was downright envious.
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were forced to engage in sex acts with each other before they were shot. The women also were raped.....
Leave it to the AP to sanitize this horrible crime. As I understand it, they raped the men and women, repeatedly and brutally. They used their guns to sodomize all of them. They forced them to sodomize each other. They made them to withdraw cash from ATMs. They were dragged out naked and shot execution style. They then ran over their bodies with a truck.
I dont care if AP didnt publish this story... their version of the facts is too watered down.
Why don't they mention the fifth murder victim, the cellist, who was murdered several days before the murder of the four? Is this just sloppy reporting? Or did the jury just forget her?
Well, it looks like they decided. Can't say I disagree, either.
I understand what you are saying, but they were tried for killing the cellist and were found guilty. Once convicted, there is no rationalization for not imposing a sentence. What was the jury's recommendation for a sentence for that killing?
The first degree murder verdict is for the fifth murder victim, who actually died in the hospital after the other four were killed. Her murder didn't fit the criteria for the death penalty.The judge still has to sentence the Dodge City brothers on 85 other criminal counts, including one count of first degree murder, rape, robbery and other crimes.
I've lived in Kansas a long time and live not far from where H.G. taught school. Hopefully she can put her life back together somewhat and go on, now that this is over.
What, she wasn't dead enough?
Thanks. It makes sense. They would not have qualified for the death penalty for the murder of Ms. Walenta here in Maryland.
Here, it's got to be multiple murders in the same "incident" or have some other aggravating circumstance, such as forceable rape, kidnapping, carjacking, etc.. That's why it was considered that John Muhammed (the sniper) couldn't get the death penalty here. The prosecutors would have had to prove that four deaths over a period of hours at different locations qualified as a "single incident". That's why the Atty. Gen. gave them over to Virginia, where they have a much more "inclusive" law.
This is a joke, right?
The brothers also were convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman four days before that attack.
I hadn't known that. The brothers really outdid themselves, didn't they? And to think, they almost got a sentence that could have seen them paroled some day.
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