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Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Wichita Public Library
Phone:
+1 316-261-8500

Hours:
Sunday1pm - 5pm
Monday10am - 8pm
Tuesday10am - 8pm
Wednesday10am - 8pm
Thursday10am - 8pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The Wichita Massacre, also known as the Wichita Horror, was a spree of random robberies, assaults, rapes, and murders perpetrated from December 7 to 14, 2000 by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr against several people in the city of Wichita, Kansas. In this period, the Carrs killed five people and a dog in the course of robberies and assaults, robbed another man, and severely wounded a woman. The crimes shocked Wichitans, and incited a boom in sales of guns, locks, and home security systems. The brothers were tried and convicted on multiple counts, including for kidnapping, robbery, rape, four counts of capital murder, and one count of first-degree murder. They were both sentenced to death in October 2002.The case has continued to receive attention because the convicted killers' sentences have been subject to various rulings related to the state's death penalty law. In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the state's death penalty law, but the Kansas attorney general appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. It upheld the constitutionality of the state's death penalty law; this meant that the Carrs and other condemned killers were returned to death row. Defense attorneys continued appeals. On July 25, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the death sentences against the Carrs because of trial judge error in the penalty proceedings. A penalty trial is required for each of the brothers. Before this occurred, the state attorney general appealed its high court's decision to the US Supreme Court, which agreed in March 2015 to hear the case. In January 2016, the United States Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Kansas Supreme Court and reinstated the death sentences. Both Carr brothers are currently incarcerated at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.
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