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There is news today from North Carolina, Nebraska, and Virginia.In North Carolina, The Raleigh News & Observer has, "12 issues that will present serious challenges."DEATH PENALTY - North Carolina is in the third year of a de facto moratorium on executions brought on by a legal dispute that has reached the N.C. Supreme Court. The N.C. Medical Society objects to a state requirement that a doctor be present at executions because it violates their tenet of doing no harm. Republicans want the legislature to step in.Earlier coverage of issues in North Carolina begins with this post."Heineman says state needs to OK lethal injection," is in Nebraska's Omaha World-Herald, today.Gov. Dave Heineman on Tuesday urged the Legislature to rebuff efforts to repeal the death penalty and to instead enact lethal injection as the state's method of execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).