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The Beatrice Daily Sun reports, "Death penalty bill signals Chambers' last chance at repeal."  Ernie Chambers has introduced his bill to repeal the death penalty, a battle he's promised to make the priority of his last session as a state senator. The bill (LB1063) would change the maximum penalty to life in prison without possibility of parole. In a pre-session survey by The Associated Press, 11 of Nebraska's 49 state senators said they supported repealing the death penalty _ versus six last year. Twenty-three said they opposed a repeal, versus 29 last year. Others were unsure or didn't respond to the survey. The closest Chambers came to having the law changed was in 1979, when his bill passed on a 26-22 vote but was vetoed by then-Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).