USA - Kansas. The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned death penalty sentences for Reginald and Jonathan Carr

The Kansas Supreme Court has overturned death penalty sentences for Reginald and Jonathan Carr (36 and 34, Black) in the killings of 4 people in December 2000. In rulings issued today, justices upheld one count of capital murder and overturned the other 4 "because of charging and multiplicity errors." New sentencing trials were ordered because the district court judge at their 2002 trial refused to allow separate penalty phase trials for the brothers. The Carr brothers were convicted of the murders and of a long list of other crimes that involved sexual crimes. The victims were Aaron Sander, 29, Brad Heyka, 27, Jason Befort, 26, and Heather Muller, 25, and Ann Walenta, 55. (see also November 14, 2002).