One of the women survived to testify against the Carr brothers.Īssistant Sedgwick County District Attorney David Lowden said the evidence against the brothers was so overwhelming that the alleged errors wouldn’t have changed the result. Four victims died: Aaron Sander, 29 Brad Heyka, 27 Jason Befort, 26 and Heather Muller, 25. The women were raped repeatedly before all five were taken to a soccer field and shot. ![]() ![]() Prosecutors said the brothers broke into a home and forced the three men and two women there to have sex with each other and later to withdraw money from ATMs. The brothers are among 10 men on Kansas’ death row, though the state has not executed anyone since hangings in 1965. “They said that with some pretty strong language, that it would require ‘extravagant speculation’ to conclude that it was unfair and that it’s ‘beyond reason’ to think that it’s unfair,” Justice Caleb Stegall told Jonathan Carr’s attorney during Thursday’s arguments. Supreme Court declared in a sometimes scathing opinion by the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia that the joint sentencing hearing didn’t violate the U.S. The Kansas court’s decision in the Carrs’ cases inspired vigorous but unsuccessful attempts to oust six of the seven justices in elections in 20.
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