Joe Stumpe has worked for newspapers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas for the past 26 years. He lives in Wichita.

When abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church on Sunday, it was a murder 10 years in the making.

Kansas doctor George Tiller, who continued to perform late-term abortions despite being picketed and bombed, was shot and killed on May 31 in a Wichita church. Last March, The Daily Beast reported from his trial.