A man condemned to death for murdering his wife, two daughters, and grandmother-in-law at a Burlingame, Kansas home in 2009, has made a possible last ditch effort to reduce or overturn his sentence. James Kraig Kahler, convicted of the quadruple capital murder and sentenced by an Osage County Jury in 2011, filed a civil lawsuit last week against the State of Kansas in Osage County District Court. In the filing, Kahler and his attorney, seek a motion for the court to receive evidence on his claims for relief and vacate and set aside his convictions and death sentence.
Kahler was convicted of killing his wife Karen, their two daughters and his wife’s grandmother in November of 2009. After an almost 12-hour manhunt following the killings, a Shawnee County Deputy found Kahler the next morning sitting in a roadside ditch along Auburn Road. The murder weapon was never found.
The current motion might not be Kahler’s last chance to attempt to overturn his death sentence. Although he has exhausted his direct appeals, and his capital murder convictions and death sentence have been affirmed
