David Klepper reports for the Kansas City Star:
The debate was emotional and the vote as close as they come, but ultimately the Kansas Senate upheld the state's death penalty on Friday.* * *Even if the bill had passed the Senate, House Speaker Mike O'Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, said it was unlikely the House would consider it.
Kansas has a moral obligation to see through the Carr brothers' execution. Pulling the rug from under the victims' families in that case would be an obscenity.