Fifty-one days after he was released from prison, his conviction for a murder he didn’t commit wiped from the record, Floyd Bledsoe urged Kansas legislators to repeal the state’s death penalty law Thursday.
“We must stop the death penalty today,” he said. “Tomorrow it might be too late for one person.”
Bledsoe spent 16 years behind bars for the 1999 murder of Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa, a crime his brother admitted to committing in suicide notes last November.
Bledsoe said his experience proves the state’s laws and court ...