Death sentences do not serve victims’ families or the public. Kansas governor should commute them.

Death sentences do not serve victims’ families or the public. Kansas governor should commute them.

Death penalty protesters gather outside the gates of the prison complex in Columbia, S.C., ahead of Stephen Bryant’s execution Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)It has been nearly 40 years since my mother, Marguerite, was murdered in a small town near Houston. It has been almost 19 years since the man who murdered her was executed. His death did not heal my pain — I still miss my mother every day — and it did not …