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Nebraska Legislature Continues Death Penalty Debate

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Nebraska legislators are continuing their debate of LB 36 at this time.  You can watch the debate in streaming video at this link.Here's the news coverage from yesterday's lengthy debate.  "Death penalty foes lose Round 1," is Paul Hammel's report in the Omaha World-Herald.After an emotional debate that extended into the evening Monday, state senators rejected a proposal to severely narrow who could receive the death penalty. The 31-7 vote came as the Nebraska Legislature debated, on first round, a bill that would change the method of execution in the state from electrocution to lethal injection. Nebraska has been without a legal means to carry out capital punishment for 14 months, since the State Supreme Court ruled that electrocution was unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).