This building behind this gate at the Lansing Correctional Facility houses the state's execution chamber. Death-row inmates will be housed at the El Dorado Correctional Facility until it is time to be moved to Lansing for execution.
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Condemned prisoners in Kansas will be put to death by lethal injection in this room at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
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Condemned prisoners in Kansas will be put to death by lethal injection in this room at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
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Gary Kleypas (Crawford County, 2008): For the March 1996 killing of Carrie Williams, a Pittsburg State University student, after trying to rape her. The Kansas Supreme Court set aside his death sentence in 2001. He was resentenced by another jury last year. That sentence is awaiting appeal.
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Phillip Cheatham (Shawnee County, 2005): For the shooting of Annette Roberson in December 2003 at a Topeka duplex. Jurors found Cheatham guilty of opening fire on the duplex, also killing Gloria Jones. A third woman, Annetta Thomas, played dead and survived 19 gunshot wounds.
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Scott Cheever (Greenwood County, 2007): For the January 2005 shooting of Sheriff Matt Samuels at a home near Virgil where authorities also found a suspected methamphetamine lab.
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John E. Robinson Sr. (Johnson County, 2002): For the murders of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten whose bodies were found in barrels on his property in rural Linn County. He was also sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985 and was never found. Robinson pleaded guilty in Missouri to five killings, receiving sentences of life without parole for each.
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Sidney Gleason (Barton County, 2006): For the shooting deaths of Miki Martinez and her boyfriend, Darren Wornkey, in February 2004. Prosecutors said Gleason and his cousin, Damian Thompson, worried that Martinez would tell police about the stabbing and robbery of a 76-year-old man. Thompson pleaded guilty and avoided facing the death penalty. He is serving life in prison.
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Jonathan Carr.
Jonathan and Reginald Carr (Sedgwick County, 2002): For four shooting deaths in Wichita during a crime spree in December 2000. Found guilty of invading a home, sexually abusing the five residents, forcing them to withdraw money from ATMs, then shooting them in a soccer field. Killed were Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, and Aaron Sander. One woman survived to testify. They also were convicted of the first-degree murder of Ann Walenta four days earlier during an attempted robbery.
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Reginald Carr. Jonathan and Reginald Carr (Sedgwick County, 2002): For four shooting deaths in Wichita during a crime spree in December 2000. Found guilty of invading a home, sexually abusing the five residents, forcing them to withdraw money from ATMs, then shooting them in a soccer field. Killed were Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, and Aaron Sander. One woman survived to testify. They also were convicted of the first-degree murder of Ann Walenta four days earlier during an attempted robbery.
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Douglas Belt (Sedgwick County, 2004): For the June 2002 decapitation of Lucille Gallegos in a vacant west Wichita apartment, where she worked as a housekeeper. Also convicted of attempted rape and aggravated arson.
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Justin Thurber (Cowley County, 2009): For the January 2007 abduction, sexual assault and killing of 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm.
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