http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/10/scalia_is_wrong_that_kansas_favors_the_death_penalty.html

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood hit bookshelves in 1965. The magazine series, turned into a book, detailed the grisly murder of the Clutter family and how the crime upended the sleepy prairie town of Holcomb, Kansas. The two men who committed the murders, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were hanged a few months before the story’s release. A few months later, on June 22, 1965, Kansas hanged spree killers George York and James Latham. Those executions—which took place 50 years ago—are the most recent executions in Kansas history. Of the 31 states that formally retain the death penalty, only New Hampshire has gone longer without an execution.