Kansas Supreme Court turns to new death penalty appeal by serial killer John Robinson

Kansas Supreme Court returns to appeals of John Robinson Sr., who was convicted of murdering three women in Kansas and tied to five deaths in Missouri.

By: Tim Carpenter

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 15, 2026

Words: 893

Last Updated: 2 days, 12 hours ago

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TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court took up the latest appeal of serial killer John Robinson Sr. a quarter century after he was sentenced to death and a decade after the state’s highest court upheld his capital murder sentence in the slaying of a woman found in a barrel on Robinson’s farm near La Cygne.

Robinson, an 82-year-old inmate at El Dorado Correctional Facility, relied on the alias “Slavemaster” in online chat rooms to make …

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