Kansas
State update
Link to Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Link to death penalty statute
Kansas Criminal Code, Chapter 21, Article 46 (21-4624)
Link to execution statute
Date death penalty reenacted
April 22, 1994
Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?
Yes; also if they employed or authorized another person to commit the crime
How is the sentence determined?
Jury
Location of death row(s)
El Dorado (Women: Topeka)
Clemency process
Governor has sole authority to grant clemency
Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)
Not specified; no executions since death penalty re-enacting
Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973
0
Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973
N/A
