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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to capital murder in the shooting death last year of a Kansas police detective, avoiding a possible death sentence while agreeing to spend the rest of his life in prison.

A prosecutor said after Curtis Ayers' court hearing that his taking the death penalty off the table came with the blessing of slain Kansas City, Kansas, Detective Brad Lancaster's family, given the lack of executions in the state under its 1994 capital punishment law. Kansas, with 10 inmates on death row, hasn't executed anyone in more than half a century.

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