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"Sen. Flood: Support of death penalty change is 'personal'," is from Nebraska's KTIV-TV.A battle is brewing, in Lincoln, over Nebraska's death penalty. And, for a Siouxland lawmaker, it's personal. Nebraska's death penalty will be major focal point this legislative session. After the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled the electric chair unconstitutional, the state's been left without a method to carry out capital punishment. State Senator Mike Flood, of Norfolk, plans to introduce a bill to make Lethal Injection legal. And, it's got the support of the Governor and the Attorney General. "A lot of people think we don't have a death penalty in Nebraska," Flood said. "We have a death penalty as a sanction, we just don't have a method to carry it out...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).