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Nebraska Lethal Injection Debate Set for Monday

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"AG's office offers timetable for 1st lethal injection execution," is Nancy Hicks' report in today's Lincoln Journal Star.An execution likely will not take place for at least a year after the Nebraska Legislature passes a lethal injection law, according to a letter from Attorney General Jon Bruning?s office to state senators.But Lincoln Sen. Danielle Nantkes believes the appeal process on an expected new state law may take much longer.The state likely would seek an execution date for Raymond Mata Jr. immediately after the state Department of Correctional Services writes execution protocol for a new lethal injection law, according to the letter from Chief Deputy Attorney General David Cookson. Mata, 36, was convicted of the 1999 murder of a Scottsbluff toddler...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).