Public comments on Stallings’ parole scheduled Jan. 26

Several persons, including Darrell L. Stallings, are scheduled to have a public comment session for parole at 10 a.m. Jan. 26 at Kansas City, Kan., City Hall, 701 N. 7th St.

Stallings, 45 received five “hard 50” sentences, with five consecutive life sentences, after five persons were killed in Kansas City, Kan., in June 2002. He was found guilty of intentional premeditated killing in the five deaths.

Public comments are allowed at the Jan. 26 meeting, with a parole hearing following in February.

Those who would like to express comments on the inmates but are unable to attend the public comment session may send a letter to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Prisoner Review Board, 714 S.W. Jackson St., Suite 300, Topeka, Ks. 66603.

Besides Stallings, those who are listed in the Jan. 26 public comment session are Marvin L. Thorton, aggravated battery against law enforcement officer, theft, burglary, and other convictions; Robert W. Gibbs, theft, first-degree murder; Rodney A. Sanders, first-degree murder, aggravated assault; Henry Lee Williams, second-degree murder; Kenneth Harrison, indecent liberties, aggravated sodomy; and Vernon Arrington, indecent liberties, aggravated sodomy.

For more information, visit http://www.doc.ks.gov/prb/public-comment-sessions/list and http://www.doc.ks.gov/prb/public-comment-sessions/schedule.