The United States Supreme Court ruled against two brothers for their murderous rampage in December 2000, which is known as the "Wichita Massacre." The justices voted 8-1 in challenging the invalid death sentences for the two brothers, Jonathan and Reginald Carr. They were previously sentenced to death but was ruled out in 2014 by the Kansas Supreme Court, according to Reuters.
Justice Antonin Scalia recounted the week-long crimes of the suspects in October 2015.
"These two men broke into a house in which there were three men and two women," Scalia said, according to Senator Jeff King's Inside the Statehouse. "They ordered the five to remove their clothes, forced them into a closet. Over the course of three hours, they demanded that the two women perform various sexual acts on one another. They demanded at gunpoint that each of the three men have sexual intercourse with both women."
The four friends shown here were murdered in 2000. They were the victims of what is called the Wichita Massacre, a...
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Scalia then proceeded how the women were raped, extorted with money, then brought all the victims to a soccer field where they were killed execution-style
One survivor named Holly was able to flee from the soccer field and sought help from a nearby house when she "started running toward it for help - naked, skull shattered, and without shoes, through the snow and over barbed-wire fences," Scalia added, according to CNN.
The public information officer of the court, Lisa Taylor, said that the case will go back to the Kansas Supreme Court where further decisions will be made.
"The Kansas Supreme Court will review the U.S. Supreme Court's decision and determine what is the next appropriate step," Taylor said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Kansas still has a death penalty, however, no inmate has been executed since 1965, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
