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Faith leaders and activists stormed the Kansas Statehouse demanding Governor Laura Kelly commute all death sentences to life without parole, arguing the state has no moral right to decide who lives or dies. Despite her past support for repealing capital punishment, Kelly denied clemency requests for Jonathan and Reginald Carr — men convicted in a brutal, torture-laced murder — citing the law and her duty to uphold it. The rally, backed by a formal letter to her chief counsel, underscored a growing movement that sees the death penalty as a violent, unjust system. With only nine death sentences issued since Kansas reinstated capital punishment in 1994, advocates insist the state’s moral authority to execute is fatally flawed — and they’re pushing for change, one plea at a time.

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