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Nebraska legislative committee doesn’t advance lethal-injection bill

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the wires: Disagreements between key lawmakers are blocking a bill to change Nebraska’s method of execution to lethal injection. The bill (LB36) from Speaker Mike Flood of Norfolk failed to advance in the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. It got just four votes from the eight members, with four members not voting. The bill wasn’t killed, but, for now, it won’t move to the whole body. Nebraska can’t carry out death sentences since the state Supreme Court ruled last year that the state’s use of the electric chair is unconstitutional because it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha, who opposed advancing the bill, wants changes in the measure to fix what he says are flaws in the way capital punishment is meted out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).