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Debate Turns to Nebraska This Week

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Later this week, Nebraska's unicameral legislature is scheduled to debate LB 36, which would authorize lethal injection as the state's method of execution.  It's unclear whether LB 306, a repeal bill, will be taken up on the floor this year."Death penalty pits costs vs. closure, is Paul Hammel's report in the Omaha World-Herald.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.Howard Morton is a 78-year-old former jet fighter pilot and Korean War veteran, who raised nine children with his wife of 53 years. He knows the impact of violent crime first-hand ? his oldest son, Guy, was murdered in 1970 and left under a pile of rocks in the Arizona desert. The case hasn't been solved. Morton acknowledges he's one of the last guys you'd figure to favor repealing the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).