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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 29, 2021, 12:52 PM Mar 2021

White supremacist who killed 3 at Jewish sites in Kansas appeals death sentence [View all]

Source: Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in the appeal of F. Glenn Miller Jr., an avowed white supremacist sentenced to die after he was convicted of killing three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park in 2014.

Among other issues, Miller's attorneys say the trial judge in Johnson County made a mistake when he allowed Miller to represent himself in the penalty phase of the case. They also contend the death penalty unconstitutionally violates "the fundamental right to life" under Kansas' Bill of Rights.

Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., was sentenced to death in 2015 after he was convicted of capital murder. His April 13, 2014, rampage outside the Jewish Community Center and the Village Shalom care center took the lives of Reat Underwood, 14; his grandfather William Corporon, 69; and 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who worked with visually impaired children.

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"I'd do it again," he said, "if they ever let me out of here."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/white-supremacist-who-killed-3-at-jewish-sites-in-kansas-appeals-death-sentence/ar-BB1f5vwf?li=BBnb7Kz

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