Kansas Supreme Court Overturns Carr Brothers' Death Sentences

[Lzen]

If you will recall, there was quite a long thread of discussion on CP when these scumbags were on trial. The story is truly disgusting. Wish I could find the original thread.

Updated: Fri 10:45 AM, Jul 25, 2014










TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences of two brothers convicted of capital murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a snow-covered Wichita soccer field in 2000.


The state Supreme Court on Friday also struck down three of the four capital murder conviction each against Jonathan and Reginald Carr. But it upheld one capital murder conviction each.
Their cases will return to Sedgwick County District Court for further hearings and a new sentencing.


The court's majority overturned the death sentences because, it said, the presiding judge failed to have separate proceedings for each brother.
In overturning most of the capital convictions, the majority said the instructions to jurors were flawed.


Posted by Greg Palmer



http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/K...#disqus_thread

[BeMyValentine]

They should already be dead!

[ArrowheadHawk]

Bullshit!

[hometeam]

I hate these guys. These mother****ers are psycho sick scums to the max. **** these guys.

[Prison Bitch]

Kansas is making some disturbing leftist actions lately and it's really not a good reflection on that state. Which as boring as it is, has intelligent folks.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Midwest scares the crap out of me

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Lzen

If you will recall, there was quite a long thread of discussion on CP when these scumbags were on trial. The story is truly disgusting. Wish I could find the original thread.

Updated: Fri 10:45 AM, Jul 25, 2014










TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences of two brothers convicted of capital murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a snow-covered Wichita soccer field in 2000.


The state Supreme Court on Friday also struck down three of the four capital murder conviction each against Jonathan and Reginald Carr. But it upheld one capital murder conviction each.
Their cases will return to Sedgwick County District Court for further hearings and a new sentencing.


The court's majority overturned the death sentences because, it said, the presiding judge failed to have separate proceedings for each brother.
In overturning most of the capital convictions, the majority said the instructions to jurors were flawed.


Posted by Greg Palmer



http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/K...#disqus_thread

How the **** does this happen?

[Predarat]

Why in the hell are those pieces of shit still alive??

[ModSocks]

I never should've read about this. At this very moment, i can't stand the human race. This world would be a better place with out us.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Predarat

Why in the hell are those pieces of shit still alive??

This is why I'm against the death penalty. Or at least in its current form. Years and years of litigation and wasting of tax payer dollars until every once in awhile someone is actually executed. Perhaps we should go back to hangings in the town square.

[Buck]

I remember first reading about them here and normally I don't believe in the death sentence, but these ****ers should burn.

[Eleazar]

The Carr brothers, 22-year-old Reginald and 20-year-old Jonathan, already had lengthy criminal records when they began their spree.[4] On December 8, 2000, having recently arrived in Wichita, they committed armed robbery against 23-year-old assistant baseball coach, Andrew Schreiber. Three days later, they shot and mortally wounded 55-year-old cellist and librarian, Ann Walenta, as she tried to escape from them in her car; she died three days later.

Their crime spree culminated on December 14, when they invaded a home and subjected five young men and women to robbery, sexual abuse, and murder. The brothers broke into a house chosen nearly at random where Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort and his girlfriend, a young woman identified as 'H.G.', all in their twenties, were spending the night. They initially scoured the house for valuables. In a much-remarked point of tragedy, H.G. learned of Befort's intent to propose marriage when the Carrs, by chance, discovered the engagement ring hidden in a can of popcorn. After the search, the Carrs forced their hostages to strip naked, bound and detained them, and subjected them to various forms of sexual humiliation, including rape and oral sex.[4] They also forced the men to engage in sexual acts with the women, and the women with each other. They then drove the victims to ATMs to empty their bank accounts, before finally taking them to a snowy deserted soccer complex on the outskirts of town and shooting them execution-style in the backs of their heads, leaving them for dead. The Carr brothers then drove Befort's truck over the bodies.

They returned to the house to ransack it for more valuables, and in the process killed Nikki, H.G.'s muzzled dog. H.G. survived because her metal barrette deflected the bullet, and ran naked for more than a mile in freezing weather to report the attack and seek medical attention.

The Carr brothers, who took few precautions, were captured by the police the next day, and Reginald was identified by Schreiber and the dying Walenta. The District Attorney stated that the Carrs' motive was robbery.[5]

[ModSocks]

Originally Posted by Cochise

I read a detailed version of the account as it was explained by the lone survivor.

Don't read it.

[Chief_For_Life58]

man i wish we could go back to the old west form of justice. hang em in the public square a week after they're captured

[ModSocks]

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58

man i wish we could go back to the old west form of justice. hang em in the public square a week after they're captured

That'd be letting them off too easy.