Supreme Court of Kansas

State v. Carr

January 21, 2022502 P.3d 511

Summary

The court affirmed Jonathan Carr's death sentence after concluding that the Kansas capital-sentencing scheme and death qualification process did not violate the Kansas Constitution, and that the identified penalty-phase errors were either not errors or harmless. The court held that the record showed no reasonable possibility that the errors, individually or cumulatively, affected the jury's weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances or its death verdict.