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Kansas and the Death Penalty

Kansas allows the death penalty as an option in cases of murder with a minimum of 7 aggravating circumstances.

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

Kansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded.

Minimum age for death penalty: 18

Executions since 1977: 0


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