JIM SUHR, Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man condemned to death for the 1996 rape and killing of a southeast Kansas college student again is asking the state’s highest court to throw out his sentence.
The Kansas Supreme Court heard two hours of arguments Monday morning involving 60-year-old Gary Kleypas’ appeal.
Kleypas was convicted of attacking and killing 20-year-old Pittsburg State University student Carrie Williams in 1996. He became the state’s first person condemned to die in more than three decades.
After the state Supreme Court in 2001 overturned Kleypas’ death sentence, another jury restored it in 2008.
At the time of Williams’ death, Kleypas was on parole for a 1977 murder in Missouri.
The Kansas Supreme Court last month upheld a death sentence for the first time since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1994.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man condemned to death for the 1996 rape and killing of a southeast Kansas college student again is asking the state’s highest court to throw out his sentence.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Monday morning was to hear arguments involving 60-year-old Gary Kleypas’ appeal.
Kleypas was convicted of attacking and killing 20-year-old Pittsburg State University student Carrie Williams in 1996. He became the state’s first person condemned to die in more than three decades.
After the state Supreme Court in 2001 overturned Kleypas’ death sentence, another jury restored it in 2008.
At the time of Williams’ death, Kleypas was on parole for a 1977 murder in Missouri.
The Kansas Supreme Court last month upheld a death sentence for the first time since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1994.