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An Update from Nebraska

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"Speaker Takes Lead in Move to Adopt Lethal Injection," is the updated post at Nebraska State Paper.It didn?t take long for the death penalty issue to come to the forefront, at least for awhile, of the legislative session that began Wednesday. Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood introduced a bill that mandates the state adopt lethal injection as its method for killing condemned prisoners, and that the Department of Corrections write its protocol for execution based on existing, constitutional statues in other states. The state Supreme Court last year said Nebraska could no longer use the electric chair. Nebraska was the only state that relied solely on ?the chair? for executions. "Our focus is always on the victims and those families left behind after senseless violence," Flood said in a press conference Wednesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).