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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