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More on the Nebraska Abolition Bill

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The Omaha World-Herald has, "Death penalty repeal returns."State Sen. Ernie Chambers is hoping to take Nebraska's death penalty with him when he leaves the Legislature next January. Chambers, who has spent more than three decades trying to pull the plug on the state's electric chair, tried again Tuesday ? introducing a bill to repeal capital punishment and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. The Omaha lawmaker has one session left to persuade colleagues to end the death penalty before he leaves office next year because of term limits. One powerful senator, Judiciary Committee Chairman Brad Ashford of Omaha, said Chambers' Legislative Bill 1063 may have a chance. Ashford said Chambers is just one of several lawmakers who have expressed skepticism in the past couple of years over the death penalty's effectiveness...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).