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"Lethal injection backed in survey," is Paul Hammel's report in Nebraska's Omaha World-Herald.Since the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled 11 months ago that electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment, the state has been without a legal means to carry out the death penalty. That might not last long, a pre-session survey of state lawmakers indicates. Twenty-nine state senators ? four more than needed to adopt a law ? indicated in the World-Herald survey that they either supported or would strongly consider adopting lethal injection as the means to carry out the ultimate penalty. Six of those responding said they were undecided, while only five indicated that they opposed lethal injection or the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).