Supreme Court of Kansas· 3/8/1996

State v. Cook

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259 Kan. 370
913 P.2d 97
1996 Kan. LEXIS 26

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reversing hard 40 sentence because defendant’s act of shooting victim twice was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel
reversing hard 40 sentence because the defendant's act of shooting the victim twice was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel
reversing hard 40 sentence because the defendant's act of shooting the victim twice was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel
even though all murders are heinous, atrocious, and cruel, the legislature reserved the hard 40 sentence under K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 21-4628 for murders that are “particularly heinous, atrocious, or cruel” to a “special or unusual degree, to an extent greater than in other cases”

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