TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A former death row inmate who was exonerated
by DNA evidence will speak at a noon rally in Topeka today.

Arizona postal worker Ray Krone spent ten years behind bars, some of that time on death row, until DNA evidence proved him innocent of killing a cocktail waitress in 1991. He was the 100th exonoree from death row since 1973.

Bills are to be introduced today in the House and Senate calling for repeal of the state's death penalty.

The rally marks the 100th anniversary of the day Kansas abolished the death penalty. It was revived and dropped several times and is currently in place.

Since 1994, ten men have received death sentences for capital murder in Kansas. None has been executed.