Kansas governor denies death sentence clemency for serial killer

By: Baya Burgess

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: June 18, 2026

Words: 358

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly denied a Kansas serial killer clemency from his death sentence on Thursday.

She denied the request of John Robinson, an 82-year-old Kansas prison inmate convicted of killing eight women from the mid 1980s until he was arrested in 2000. The governor said he did not meet the criteria for clemency.

“As the existence of a credible claim of innocence or evidence of manifest injustice are absent in his request,” Kelly …

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