Kansas bill to abolish death penalty gets hearing

India should also immediately bring in such a bill abolishing the horrendous crime committed upon human civilization--the Death Penalty (or Capital Punishment). Let it be practised in the Barbaric States of the world and not in India.

We already know how in some Taliban like countries, hands are legs are chopped off of human beings.... Are human being animals??!! The question remains which God is saying all these draconian things??

India is a civilised country and Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, etc. have decent religious laws to govern them......Jesus Christ said, "Hate Sin and not the Sinner"

Kansas, US: A bill abolishing the Kansas death penalty is scheduled to have a Senate committee hearing.

The Judiciary Committee plans to hear testimony Thursday on the proposal by Sen. Carolyn McGinn, a Sedgwick Republican. It plans to vote Friday on whether to send the bill to the chamber for debate.

McGinn says abolishing the death penalty would save the state money because it would eliminate the high costs of capital cases.

The bill would ban the death penalty after July 1 but wouldn't change death sentences already imposed. The last time the state carried out an execution was in 1965.

Senate leaders say it's hard to gauge the level of support because only three of the 40 senators were around when the death penalty was reinstated in 1994