Battle for State Court Control Intensifies

The Pew charitable Trusts: WICHITA, Kansas—Shortly before Christmas in 2000, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr went on a brutal robbery, rape and murder spree that left five people dead and traumatized this city, the state’s largest.

The Carr brothers were convicted and sentenced to death. But in July, the Kansas Supreme Court set aside the death sentences for the notorious killers, shocking many Kansans and adding fuel to a debate over how justices on the state’s highest court should be chosen.

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